How to Prepare for the New York City Sshsat: Specialized Science High Schools Admissions Test

This book contains questions that are harder than many of the other SHSAT books. I am a private tutor and I have helped many students with all the available SHSAT books out there. If a person completes and understands most of the problems from this book, that person will surely do well on the exam. This book contains many sample exams with explanations for every single problem. (...)

I am applying to Stuyvesant and going to take the test soon (in less than a month). I have not prepared for the test before, and so I was totally freaking out when I learned the test date. However, my dad got me this book, as well as the Kaplan SCI-HI one, and I feel a lot better about my chances. This Barron's book has a lot more practice tests than the Kaplan, it explains its answers more fully, and has better ways to build your skills for each part of the test. It also gives you progress reports so you can see how your score is changing. I would recommend the Kaplan as well, but only if you have more than a month to study. If you have less than a month, then the Kaplan is much too dense, and doesn't give you enough pracitce. At the back of the Kaplan, however, there is a very useful "Math in a Nutshell" section, which gives you a lot of rules and terms to learn. This has definitely helped me as well. I would recommend both books, as they both contain important information, but if you can only get one, get the Barron's.

The Barrons' SSHSAT was a big help in helping me get into Brooklyn Tech. At first I aimed for Stuyvesant, but I was only a few points away, ending up in Brooklyn Tech. The book helped me a lot in getting in. I was really bad at the verbal part of the exam, but the book help me shapen up before the test. I also suggest you to get the Kaplan's SCI-HI book to succeed. With the examples and practices from both books, you will definitely get in. Good luck to the people who would be taking the test.

This book really helped me to prepare for the high school entrance test. Problems in the book were harder that in the actual test and the test itself was like a joke after sample tests in the book.So I highly recommend this book.P.S. Wish me luck to get into the good high school

I was one of the lucky students who had Mr. Zimmerman as a teacher in BTHS (one of the specialized high schools in NYC.) And believe me, he is hands down the best mathematics teacher there ever was. He will show you the "standard" way to solve a problem, the "tricky" way to solve a problem, the "ingenious" way to solve a problem, and the "wrong" way to solve a problem. And if you ask him nicely, he'll give you a myriad other solutions. He knows the ins and outs of standardized tests and how to approach them. He is both eloquent and breviloquent. He will explain the problem, solution, and the logic behind it in a simple, concise, and easy to understand way. Every time he'll solve a problem with you, he'll actually "solve the problem with you." Not just give you a solution, but actually guide your reasoning from beginning to end. He'll be more than willing to try the wrong way, just to show you that it's the wrong way to approach the problem and why it's the wrong way. I could go on and on.. the author is a wonder and so is the book.