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What is the High School Placement Test (HSPT)?
The High School Placement Test (HSPT) is an exam taken by 8th grade students seeking admission to parochial high schools. The High School Placement test determines both admission and class placement within many Catholic high schools.
The exam is comprised of multiple choice questions, split across five sections. The sections include Verbal Skills, Quantitative Skills, Reading, Mathematics, and Language. In order to better measure students’ academic achievement, the HSPT does not focus on memorized information such as definitions or facts. Optional tests in Mechanical Aptitude, Science or Religion are also available.
Performing well on the HSPT is incredibly important, as it not only plays a role in determining whether your child gets into their top-choice high school, it also helps determine the class levels he or she will be placed into once admitted.
Higher level classes on your child’s academic transcript can make a difference later on in their high school career when he or she begins the college application process, hoping to stand out among the sea of applicants. With the support of a knowledgeable tutor from Huntington Learning Center, students entering high school will learn the skills and strategies necessary to ace the exam through the use of a comprehensive high school placement test prep program structured specifically around the format of the HSPT.
Test Prep For The Catholic High School Placement Exam
The high school your child attends and the classes they take there can make a world of difference in the experience they have during this important period of their life. A top high school brings with it challenging and diverse courses, competitive and fulfilling extracurricular activities, and a supportive network of caring teachers who truly have each student’s best interests at heart.
All of these factors work together to adequately prepare students for the challenges that lie ahead in college and their future careers. The first step to gaining admittance to top high schools across the country is taking the high school entrance exam.
One such high school entrance exam that many students will take is the High School Placement Test (HSPT). Top scores on the HSPT allow rising high schoolers to have the largest selection of classes to enroll in, allowing them to curate their high school classes to best prepare them for college. In order to best prepare students of all abilities for this exam, parents choose Huntington Learning Center for the high quality HSPT test prep program they know will result in higher scores.
For students who are looking to go to a private high school that may not be a parochial school, we also offer test prep programs for the ISEE, HSEE, and SSAT.
Personalized HSPT Test Prep Programs
HSPT prep programs through Huntington focus both on subject matter and test-taking skills.
Students can expect:
- Timed HSPT practice tests to simulate and prepare for test day
- Individualized subject matter help to both improve low scoring areas and maximize high-scoring areas
- Help with test-taking strategies, including which questions to start with and which questions to skip and come back to
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HSPT FAQs
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SECTION NUMBER OF QUESTIONS TIME LIMIT (MINUTES) VERBAL SKILLS - 60
- 16
QUANTITATIVE SKILLS - 52
- 30
READING - 62
- 25
MATHEMATICS - 64
- 45
LANGUAGE - 60
- 25
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The HSPT is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in length.
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HSPT test dates, locations, and registration information are handled through individual schools. You can find more information by visiting http://www.ststesting.com/hp_1.html.
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STS recommends that the HSPT® should only be taken once by each student. Under extenuating circumstances a school may decide to allow a student to retest. However, this should be dealt with by individual schools or dioceses on a case by case basis.
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Each HSPT multiple-choice question presents four answer choices. For each HSPT multiple-choice question that the student answers correctly, the student receives one point. There is no penalty for incorrect answers or for omitted answers. Student speed in completing each HSPT section is not considered in scoring. Correct, incorrect, and omitted answers are tallied for each test section to produce a raw score. The total number of questions answered correctly is the raw score.
Raw scores are then converted into scaled scores using a formula used to compensate for any differences in difficulty from test to test. The scales come from specific tables produced by the test maker. Once scores are converted to scaled scores, they can be compared with the scores of students of the same grade level across the country. Scaled score performance is then rated as partially proficient, proficient, and advanced proficient, measured by percentiles ranging from 1 to 99.
HSPT Score Reports are released to the schools, educational consultants, and education organizations that the student selects on the registration form. Scores remain active for one academic year. The scores required for admissions vary by school. Contact the schools directly for admissions information.
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