Specialized Testing
Not sure where your student stands? Start with a diagnostic.
Step 01 / 04 — Exam
A standardized test has to be standardized. It is written to a specification, reused year after year, and scored by machine — which means it cannot surprise anyone, and the same few dozen question shapes come round every time.
So we do not drill vocabulary lists and hope. We teach the shapes, and we teach the clock, because a student who recognises what is being asked has already done most of the work. What is left is arithmetic and nerve, and both are trainable.
SHSAT
Autumn, eighth grade
Specialized High Schools Admissions Test
English Language Arts and Mathematics across one sitting. Admission to the specialized high schools is by score alone — there is no essay, no interview, and no second reader. That makes it unusually learnable.
SAT
Spring, eleventh grade onward
Digital SAT
Reading and Writing, then Math, each adaptive across two modules: the second module's difficulty is set by how the first one went. Most students should sit it more than once, and we plan for that from the start.
Every student runs the same four stages, however long they have. The order matters more than the hours: there is no point drilling a section before knowing whether it is the one losing the points.
01
Diagnostic
Where the points actually go
02
Patterns
The dozen shapes that recur
03
Timing
Pace as a skill of its own
04
Review
The wrong answer as the lesson
Axiom
A score measures preparation. It has never once measured a student.
Now enrolling — 2026 sessions
One sitting, scored and read back to you section by section. Then we will tell you what the work actually is.