SHSAT ELA
Begin with an official exam. Identify your weak topics below. Learn the topics and practice topic exercises to drive your scores higher.
Maximize your SHSAT training.
Full-Length ELA Exams: (more info)
Exams (90min) Answers Score
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2022 ELA A Results
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Exams (90min) Answers Score
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* All ELA exams are official
Fall SHSAT Course
Every Tues/Thurs/Sat
- 7:00PM – 8:30PM Tues/Thurs
- 9:30AM-11:00AM Sat
- Math & ELA
- Avg. class size – 6
- Monthly starts in September
Revising/Editing Part A: Grammar
Part A Grammar Question Categories (~10 min. each)
| 2. Get to know the question prompts. | Part A Answer Table |
| Precise Language | Lesson |
| Pronouns/Case Ambiguity | Lesson |
| Verb Tense & Agreement | Lesson |
| Misplaced Modifiers | Lesson |
| Run-Ons/Fragments | Lesson |
| Comma Rules | Lesson |
| Other Punctuation | Lesson |
Passages
Identify your weak grammar topics in the Revise/Edit Part A column chart above. The low blue bars on the left side are your lowest scoring grammar topics. Learn more about each topic by clicking the topic lesson link to the left. Once armed with greater knowledge, it’s time to go into battle. Click the question prompt to the left and practice each weak topic to drive those blue bars upward! You can see your improved scores real-time in the chart. Moreover, you can drill down into the details of every Part A question you practiced by clicking the Part A Answer Table. Happy studies!
Passages are not applicable to Part A.
Overview
- Know the material (concepts and theorems):
Learn the required half-dozen grammar rules and then practice the questions. This exam section is short.
Revising/Editing Part B: Passage-Related Questions
Part B Passage-Related Question Categories
Passages – Exercises (~10 min. each)
3. Practice, practice, practice.
Part B:
Alien Invasion Not started N/a%
Benefits of Indoor Plants Not started N/a%
Cracking the Code Not started N/a%
End of an Era Not started N/a%
Evolution Not started N/a%
Find Time to Volunteer Not started N/a%
Free College Debate Not started N/a%
Gaudi Not started N/a%
Local Library Not started N/a%
Martial Arts for the Mind and Body Not started N/a%
Moving Through the Mountains Not started N/a%
Napkin Ring Problem Not started N/a%
Pursuing a Hobby Not started N/a%
Unlock Ride Return Not started N/a%
Overview
- Know the material (concepts and theorems):
Students with reasonably good comprehension skills should ace this section every time. The passages and questions are always the same structure, so learn what to look for and identify the correct answer for each prompt.
Reading:
Reading Question Categories
| 2. Get to know the question prompts | Reading Answer Table |
| Main Idea | Lesson |
| Paragraph Idea (new) | Lesson |
| Command of Evidence (new) | Lesson |
| Overall Structure (function) (new) | Lesson |
| Best Summary (new) | Lesson |
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Chart/Table Idea (new)
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Lesson |
| Inferences | Lesson |
| Chronological/Sequencing (new) | Lesson |
| Author’s Viewpoint (new) | Lesson |
| Affects Tone/Cause Effect (new) | Lesson |
| Repetition/Parallelism (new) | Lesson |
| Rhetorical Development (new) | Lesson |
| Words in Context (new) | Lesson |
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Form (of Poem) (new)
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Lesson |
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Personification (new)
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Lesson |
| Risk-Danger (new) | Lesson |
Passages – Exercises (~10 min. each)
3. Practice, practice, practice.
Poetry:
Bird Talk Not started N/a%
Cross Purposes Not started N/a%
Letter from Brooklyn Not started N/a%
Ode to Fireworks Not started N/a%
Serpent’s Mound Not started N/a%
Smallest Spark of Everything Not started N/a%
Snowy Mountains Not started N/a%
Narratives/Literary Excerpts:
Do Them No Harm Not started N/a%
First Flight Not started N/a%
The Highest Tide Not started N/a%
Indian Childhood Not started N/a%
In Search of the Unknown Not started N/a%
Niagara Falls Not started N/a%
Spirit of the Herd Not started N/a%
A Tramp Abroad Not started N/a%
A Voice in the Wilderness Not started N/a%
Winter Wheat Not started N/a%
Sciences:
Best Laid Plans of Ravens Not started N/a%
Fire to Keep a Prairie Healthy Not started N/a%
How Exercise Helps You Learn a Language Not started N/a%
Invention of the Telegraph Not started N/a%
Memory Revolution Not started N/a%
Not All Non-Native Species Are Evil Not started N/a%
Past and Future of Earth’s Oldest Trees Not started N/a%
Research Riddle Resolved Not started N/a%
Tunguska Fireball Not started N/a%
Wolves of the Sea Not started N/a%
Social Science:
Egyptian Scribe Not started N/a%
E-Waste Problem Not started N/a%
Food Business Incubator Not started N/a%
Going Solar in China Not started N/a%
Term Limits Not started N/a%
Uncovering the Past Not started N/a%
History:
Early Warning – Man and Nature Not started N/a%
Massachusetts – Lowell Not started N/a%
Ruins of a Fabled City Not started N/a%
Year Without a Summer Not started N/a%
Kennedy-Nixon Debate Not started N/a%
Biography:
Miracle Mile Not started N/a%
Champion of the Channel Not started N/a%
Overview
- Know the material (concepts and theorems):
Learn to be proactive with the text to improve comprehension (#1 required ability), which means using word clues to identify the main idea and how ideas progress throughout the text in simplified terms. If you do it right you will pick up one or two simple, useful ideas from even the most complicated poem. If wrong, it will seem to others like you complicated even the most simple passage. Learn to recognize the difference.
Predict Your Answer Exercise
Learn the Art of Elimination
Get to know the actual question prompts you will see on the exam and learn tips how to solve each. Make sure you understand the conditions of each question. Do not read the question and then try to immediately circle an answer like most students. Instead, be able find the evidence quickly (it is an evidence-based exam) and then predict the answer in your simplified words. Match that prediction to the correct answer and develop critical answer elimination skills if you want to get consistently correct answers.
