Catholic High School Entrance Exams (COOP/HSPT) 2006

This book had a number of practice exams along with tips on how to have success on the test. My son used it for the HSPT. I do believe there were some errors on answers but have not had time to confirm them. All in all, I thought it was good prep and good value.

I've used Kaplan to teach a Catholic High School Entrance Exam prep class in Rhode Island for four of the past six years I've taught the course. Students give the text consistently high scores as a great resource. It's practical, concise and has lots of opportunities to practice. Highly recommend. See my website at www-chspe-prepclass.com

My daughter found this book to be the most helpful of the two books she used to study for the Catholic high school entrance exams. The Kaplan book provided good explanations of each of the different exams administered, i.e., COOP, HSPT and TACHS, and it provided good sample exams of each, with answers and explanations. The HSPT exam was the most common exam administered for the high schools she was applying to, and she felt the practice exams gave her a really good feel for the real test.

This book is perfect for teachers, students , administrators and a whole constituency of people preparing candidates for entrance into the Catholic High School System. The review book covers the following areas: - paragraph reading and interpretation - punctuation, comma, semi-colon, colon, apostrophe, quotations - symbolic logic questions i.e. up arrow, down arrow, ----up arrow - 100 10 7 64 8 5 49 7 ---- Ans 3 ( the answer is the square root of a number minus 3) - 3^3 x 3^4= 3^ 7 - ZAB YBC X---D Ans. C :. XCD - verbal reasoning : necessary is to part as oven is to HEAT cage is to captivity as carpet is to THREAD megaphone is to hear as concert is to AUDIENCE leash is to control as fish is to GILLS - find the word that does not belong bottle diaper crib SLIDE (ANSWER) content happy ecstatic ruffled annoyed AGITATED - simple algebra and geometry The exam is doable; however, each question requires a careful reading.