High School Entrance Related Pages:
About the Tests – SSAT/HSPT Prep Classes – SSAT, ISEE, HSPT Private Tutoring
WHY PREPARE FOR THE SSAT AND/OR HSPT?
- To gain admission to a private or boarding school (SSAT)
- To gain admission to a Catholic high school (HSPT)
- To earn a place in Honors Classes in high school
- To be considered for an academic Scholarship
- To learn Test-taking Strategies
- To improve Math, English, & Essay Writing Skills
- To take a timed practice test before test day
WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED ON THE SSAT & HSPT TESTS?
SSAT TOPICS:
- Verbal (Analogies & Vocabulary)
- Reading Comprehension
- Mathematics (2 sections)
- Writing Sample (not included in the scoring, but sent to the schools)
HSPT TOPICS:
- Verbal Skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Quantitative Skills
- Mathematics
- Language Skills
- Short Writing Sample (not part of the HSPT) may be requested
HOW DO I REGISTER FOR THE SSAT & HSPT TESTS?
SSAT: For test dates, test centers, & registration, visit www.ssat.org.
HSPT: First Saturday in December. You may register and take the test at any Catholic high school, but usually it should be your first choice school.
SCHOOL ACCEPTANCES:
Students who received KTS SSAT and/or HSPT prep have been accepted into the following high schools, often into the honors program, and sometimes with academic scholarships (KTS students have been the top scorers on the HSPT test given at LaSalle Academy, Bishop Hendricken, and Bishop Feehan schools, thereby winning full or very significant scholarships):
**LOCAL PRIVATE** **BOARDING** **CATHOLIC**
Lincoln School Phillips Exeter La Salle Academy
Moses Brown Middlesex Bishop Hendricken
Portsmouth Abbey Hotchkiss St. Raphael Academy
Providence Country Day Choate Mount St. Charles
Wheeler School Brooks Bay View Academy
Rocky Hill Deerfield Portsmouth Abbey
Loomis Prout
St. George's Bishop Feehan
St. Mark's Bishop Stang
Milton Academy Bishop Keough
St. Paul's Our Lady of Fatima
Avon Old Farms
Pomfret
Tabor
Roxbury Latin
Portsmouth Abbey
Northampton
Dana Hall
Northfield Mt. Herman
Gunnery
Williston
Canterbury
Concord
Putney