9th grade SHSAT...how hard is it? =] (Best answer)?

1. There's a math section and an english section. In English, there's scrambled paragraphs. They give you several paragraphs, and you have to put them in the correct order. There's some logic questions. Ex. If blorps are bleeps and bleeps are blops, what's blorps? (ugh, hate those). In the math part, it's just all-around math. Fractions, algebra, etc. 2. Your school should have given you a handbook that has practice tests and some info. Here's one link for a book: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9780764136481&ourl=Barrons%2DSHSAT%2FLarry%2DZimmerman (Personally, I wouldn't bother spending money on a book like that. It probably won't help much.) 3. The number changes every year. But if I remember when I took it, it was about 200. 4. You mean 10 being the hardest? If so, 7. I thought the worst part was the amount of time given. I couldn't finish it. 5. I think it was a little harder than what I did in 8th grade. But it depends on what school you go to, what classes you're in, etc. 6. There should be one in the handbook I mentioned earlier. You might be able to find one on the NYC board of education website. I have no idea what the discovery program is. It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't remember what it is. Sorry! My advice to you is don't stress!! Just take it easy on test day. Good Luck! Edit: I just realized you meant the 9th grade test. Sorry, didn't see that part. I didn't take it in 9th grade, so I don't know much about that test. But I know they take much less people than 8th grade. Sorry I couldn't help more!

1. Its basically the same stuff as the 8th grade one. You took the one in 8th, so you know basically all the stuff thats on it 2. There is not really a best one, but kaplan and princeton and pretty good 3. I go to stuy, but the scores change and so do the incoming students. Each year more students come in, but our principal is trying to stop that and keep it somewhere in the 800's 4. Its the easiest thing ever because there aren't any trick questions. It's all stuff we learned in like 7th grade 5. I didn't take it in during 9th grade, but my friends say it was basically the same thing 6. Yea, just do the ones in the book And there are so many people who reject these schools because it might be too far from their house or they didn't get into their first choice. plus, i know like stuy gives metrocards to people who live like a certain distance away but there are so many people who live pretty far from the school and don't get metrocards cuz they don't fall under the catagory, and so they just can't afford to go there. anyways, I hope you do better on the 9th grade one. best of luck :)

they don't sell books for the 9th grade test. stuff like trigonometry and algebra. there might be geometry. the english will more or so be the same just much harder.about 700 students probably get in. the test id much harder then the eight grade one. In difficulty the test is like a 8.5 You'll just have to get regular books and study. the summer discovery program helps you get into a school. say you just missed the cutoff but the school has a seat you go to the program and get into the school. good luck.

My friends from the 9th grade retoke it this year for stuy and he got a 539 and idnt make it into stuy, its much harder then the 8th grade but if u go to a really good prep, which i regret not doing i think you'll do fine. Try for ivy bond or MEGA. and id prlly rate from other pple like an 8 and there are no practice tests online i searched.

Sweetie, there's no way for someone to tell you what's going to be on a test the way you want me to tell you. With such great details and such, it's basically like cheating and they change it around every year so... Yeah. You would have to get like the people that make the test to tell you, good luck with that. Oh and you should know what's pretty much on it... You said you alreay took it, right? There's no way for me or anyone else to help you if you can't help yourself first.

The discovery program is a summer program for those who scored very close to the cutoff of their desired school but did not receive entrance. The requirements are 1. have scored close to the admission cut-off score on the SHSAT; and 2. be certified as disadvantaged by their middle school according to any one of the following criteria: a. attend a Title 1 school and be from a family whose total income is documented as meeting federal income eligibility guidelines established for school food services by the NYS Department of Agriculture; or b. be receiving assistance from the Human Resources Administration; or c. be a member of a family whose income is documented as being equivalent to or below Department of Social Services standards; or d. be a foster child or ward of the state; or e. initially have entered the United States within the last four years and live in a home in which the language customarily spoken is not English; and 3. be recommended by their local school as having high potential for the special high school program. Now for the 9th grade shsat, about 2000 kids take the test. It focuses on trigonometry I believe. It is very hard to get into Stuyvesant on the 9th grade SHSAT so start preparing right now. Sorry that you did not get into stuy, maybe I will see you in the tenth grade :)