SHSAT Question Analysis

What the released questions show

Every question on this site is from the DOE’s released SHSAT practice tests. These pages count what the questions test, how often each topic and standard comes up and how often the DOE prints a question again, and explain how each question is analyzed.

NYS Standards on the SHSAT

Every New York State learning standard the DOE’s released SHSAT questions test: its official wording, how often it is tested, and its questions.

111 standards tested

How Often Each SHSAT Topic and Standard Is Tested

The topics and New York State standards the DOE’s released SHSAT questions test most often, by year: what to study first.

1,002 different questions counted

How Often the SHSAT Sample Questions Are Reused

How many of the DOE’s released SHSAT sample questions are new each year, and how many are reprints of questions printed before.

2,225 questions printed, 1,002 of them different

How the SHSAT Questions Are Analyzed

What makes an SHSAT question hard, and what each wrong answer reveals: the difficulty drivers, depth of knowledge and wrong-answer types used to analyze every released question, with the research behind them.

1,002 questions analyzed