SHSAT Sunset

How Often the SHSAT Sample Questions Are Reused

The DOE’s sample tests on this site, from 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, print 1,313 questions. 857 of them are different questions: 456 printings (34.7%) repeat a question printed before, and 31 of the different questions are earlier questions with their wording changed.

Only the tests on this site are counted. The handbooks from 2008–2009, 2009–2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2017–2018, 2019–2020, 2020–2021, 2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2026 Grade 9 Math, Form 1, and 2026 Grade 9 Math, Form 2 are not imported yet, so a question they printed first counts as new in the first year here that prints it. The numbers will change as they are added.

New and reprinted questions, year by year

Questions printed each year, new and reprintedOne stacked bar per year: new questions, rewordings of earlier questions, and reprints by how many times they had been printed before. The table below has the same numbers.0100200300400500New questions: 2282282282018New questions: 210210Earlier questions reworded: 7Reprinted, printed 1 time before: 112282023New questions: 184184Earlier questions reworded: 16Reprinted, printed 1 time before: 282282024New questions: 4747Earlier questions reworded: 5Reprinted, printed 1 time before: 164164Reprinted, printed 2 times before: 122282025New questions: 157157Earlier questions reworded: 3Reprinted, printed 1 time before: 103103Reprinted, printed 2 times before: 135135Reprinted, printed 3 times before: 34012026
  • New questions
  • Earlier questions reworded
  • Reprinted, printed 1 time before
  • Reprinted, printed 2 times before
  • Reprinted, printed 3 times before
Questions printed each year
YearPrintedNew questionsEarlier questions rewordedReprinted, printed 1 time beforeReprinted, printed 2 times beforeReprinted, printed 3 times before
20182282280000
202322821071100
2024228184162800
2025228475164120
202640115731031353

Different questions over the years

Questions printed and different questions, added up over the yearsTwo lines, one point per year: every question printed so far, and how many of them are different questions. The gap between them is the reprints. The table below has the same numbers.05001,0001,5002284566849121,31322844564569785720182023202420252026
  • Questions printed
  • Different questions
Added up to each year
Up toQuestions printedDifferent questionsReprints
20182282280
202345644511
202468464539
2025912697215
20261,313857456

Where each year’s questions were first printed

Where each year’s questions were first printedA grid: each row is a year’s tests, each column the year in which its questions were first printed. Darker cells hold more questions. The table below has the same numbers.20182023202420252026201822820231121720241992002025996116522026102573646160
Rows: the year printed. Columns: the year first printed.
Printed in20182023202420252026
20182280000
202311217000
202419920000
2025996116520
2026102573646160

How many times each question has been printed

How many times each question has been printedOne bar per number of printings: how many different questions were printed once, twice, and so on. The table below has the same numbers.02004006005511 time1592 times1443 times34 times
Different questions by times printed
PrintedQuestions
1 time551
2 times159
3 times144
4 times3

Passages

Reading and revising passages each year
YearPassagesNewPrinted before
201814140
202314122
20241495
202514311
202628820

How these are counted

  • A question is the same question when its text, choices and answer are identical apart from typography, small words such as “the”, and the order of the parts of its stem. It has one page on this site and is listed in every test that prints it.
  • A question with a changed word or choice is a different question. When it rewords a question from an earlier year it is counted as a rewording.
  • A year is a handbook’s school year. Each handbook holds two sample tests, Form A and Form B, each with an English and a math section.
  • Reprinted passages are counted separately: a passage can return with new questions about it.