SHSAT Academy — The Self-Study Platform for Specialized High School Admissions
Expert-guided preparation for the SHSAT featuring an adaptive math diagnostic, 1,000+ challenging practice problems, daily skill-building exercises, and weekly parent progress reports — everything your student needs, on their schedule.
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We help more students gain admission to NYC specialized high schools than anyone else — and we have been doing it since 2014.
SHSAT Academy Self-Study Plans
Choose the section you need — or get both and save.
✓ 1,000+ challenging SHSAT-level problems
✓ 10 chapters across all math topic areas
✓ Daily practice exercises
✓ AI Socratic hints
✓ Weekly parent progress reports
✓ Timed full-length practice exams
✓ Revising & editing passage practice
✓ Stand-alone grammar question drills
✓ Daily reading and editing exercises
✓ AI-guided feedback on responses
✓ Weekly parent progress reports
✓ Timed ELA practice sections
✓ Everything in ELA Only
✓ Full diagnostic across all sections
✓ Combined progress dashboard
✓ Unified weekly parent report
✓ Complete timed full-length tests
✓ Best value for full SHSAT prep
Our self-study platform is powerful on its own — but many students pair it with live tutoring for maximum results. See our seasonal courses, summer intensives, and private tutoring options.
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Start With a Free Adaptive Math Diagnostic
Like the new adaptive SHSAT, our diagnostic adjusts in real time based on your answers — harder questions when you succeed, targeted support when you need it. 46 questions across 23 math skill areas, delivered in 3 short stages. Results including a chapter-by-chapter score breakdown are emailed directly to you and a parent.
What Is Inside SHSAT Academy
More features and more questions than ever before. Here is what your student gets from day one.
Like the new adaptive SHSAT, our diagnostic adjusts to every student in real time. Questions get harder when you succeed and redirect when you need support. After 3 stages you receive a chapter-by-chapter performance report showing exactly where to focus your daily practice.
Our math question bank is built to match the difficulty and multi-skill nature of real SHSAT problems. Combined ratios, invented unit conversions, cyclic remainder patterns, two-stage age problems, rate-with-variable expressions — the kinds of problems that trip up even prepared students. Not textbook drills. Real test prep.
Short daily exercises across each of the 10 lesson chapters build habits that compound over time. Twenty minutes a day consistently outperforms marathon weekend sessions. SHSAT Academy is built to support steady improvement, not last-minute cramming.
Stuck on a problem at 10pm? Our AI Math Tutor does not just mark answers right or wrong — it walks students through their reasoning step by step using the Socratic method. It asks the right questions, surfaces the gap in thinking, and lets the student arrive at the answer themselves. That is how real understanding is built. Unlike a human tutor, it is available every night, on every problem, at no extra cost.
Every week, parents receive a chapter-by-chapter score breakdown, progress trends, and specific areas to focus on. No more wondering whether your student is actually improving. You will see it clearly in writing, every single week.
Full-length practice exams in timed mode train students to manage the SHSAT clock, one of the most underestimated skills on test day. Every result is saved for review and tracked over time so both students and parents can see real improvement.
Ready for the New Computer-Adaptive SHSAT?
Starting Fall 2026, the SHSAT changes how questions are chosen for every student in real time — the difficulty of each question adjusts based on how you’re doing, question by question, just like the real exam now works. Most practice materials still don’t.
True Item-Level Adaptivity
Our benchmark exams adjust difficulty after every single question — not just once or twice at fixed checkpoints — so the practice experience actually mirrors how the real 2026 SHSAT measures your student’s ability.
2,600+ Real SHSAT-Level Questions
Every question — and every companion practice version — is independently verified and organized across 23 precise skill categories, so your student never runs out of fresh material on the exact skills that show up on test day.
A Real Estimated Score
Not just a percentage — a scaled score estimate that tells you where your student stands relative to recent specialized high school cutoffs, so you know exactly where you’re aiming.
Enroll for Full Benchmark Access
Full-length adaptive benchmark exams are available to enrolled students, so you can track real progress toward test day.
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Ready to Get Started?
Take the free adaptive math diagnostic first — or enroll directly and start practicing today. The SHSAT is in October. Every week of daily practice between now and then matters.