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Dette er en gratis SHSAT-øvingsprøve med 15 spørsmål som StudyPDF-teamet har skrevet i stil med New York Citys Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Fire handler om leseforståelse, fire om revidering og redigering og sju om matte. Svar på alle 15, sjekk poengsummen din og les forklaringen til hvert spørsmål.
Read the passage: Roman engineers built their roads in layers. At the bottom was a bed of large stones, then a layer of gravel and sand, and on top a surface of tightly fitted paving stones. The surface was raised slightly in the center so that rainwater ran off into ditches on either side. Because water is the great enemy of any road, this drainage did as much to keep the roads in use for centuries as the stones did. Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?
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1. Read the passage: Roman engineers built their roads in layers. At the bottom was a bed of large stones, then a layer of gravel and sand, and on top a surface of tightly fitted paving stones. The surface was raised slightly in the center so that rainwater ran off into ditches on either side. Because water is the great enemy of any road, this drainage did as much to keep the roads in use for centuries as the stones did. Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?
- A. Roman roads were made of stone because stone was cheap.
- B. The paving stones were the most important layer of a Roman road.
- C. Roman roads lasted because of how they were layered and how they shed water.
- D. Roman engineers built roads mainly to protect the army from rain.
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Svar: C. Roman roads lasted because of how they were layered and how they shed water.
A central idea has to cover the whole passage: the layers and the drainage, and why both mattered. The paving stone option ignores the last sentence, which says drainage did as much as the stones. Cost and the army are never mentioned.
2. Read the passage: Glaciers move slowly, but not steadily. A glacier may creep forward only a few inches in a day, then surge ahead dozens of feet after a season of heavy snowfall. This uneven movement makes it hard to predict where the ice will be in ten years. As used in the passage, surge most nearly means
- A. move forward suddenly
- B. slowly melt away
- C. split into pieces
- D. stop completely
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Svar: A. move forward suddenly
The sentence sets surge against creep, a few inches in a day, so it must mean the opposite: a fast, sudden advance of dozens of feet. The last sentence confirms it by calling the movement uneven and hard to predict.
3. Read the passage: Ines had rehearsed the speech on the bus, in the shower and twice for the cat. But now that the gym was full, the page in her hand seemed to belong to a stranger. She looked at the first line, then at the back wall, then at her brother, who was holding up a crooked sign that said GO INES in marker. Her shoulders loosened. She cleared her throat and began with the one sentence she had not written down. Which inference about Ines is best supported by the passage?
- A. She was unprepared because she had never practiced out loud.
- B. Her brother wrote the speech she is about to give.
- C. She is angry that the gym is so crowded.
- D. Seeing her brother steadies her, and she begins in her own words.
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Svar: D. Seeing her brother steadies her, and she begins in her own words.
Her shoulders loosen right after she sees the sign, and she then starts with a sentence she did not write down, so she is calmer and speaks for herself. The passage lists several places she rehearsed, and nothing says who wrote the speech or that she is angry.
4. Read the passage: Each autumn, monarch butterflies in eastern North America fly south to spend the winter in the mountains of central Mexico. The trip can cover more than a thousand miles. The butterflies that head north again in spring, however, are not the ones that made the trip south. The journey north takes several generations, and each one lays eggs and dies along the way. Which statements are supported by the passage? Select all that apply.
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- A. Eastern monarchs spend the winter in the mountains of central Mexico.
- B. A single monarch flies the whole round trip each year.
- C. The trip back north takes more than one generation of butterflies.
- D. Monarchs fly south because food runs out in Mexico.
- E. The trip south can be more than a thousand miles long.
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Svar: A. Eastern monarchs spend the winter in the mountains of central Mexico., C. The trip back north takes more than one generation of butterflies., E. The trip south can be more than a thousand miles long.
Three statements appear in the passage almost word for word. The round trip claim is contradicted, because the butterflies heading north are not the ones that went south, and the passage never gives a reason for the migration. Check every choice against the text, not against what you already know.
5. Read the sentence: The garden is tended by a different grade each week, the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar. Which version is punctuated correctly?
- A. The garden is tended by a different grade each week, the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar.
- B. The garden is tended by a different grade each week; the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar.
- C. The garden is tended by a different grade each week the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar.
- D. The garden is tended by a different grade each week, then the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar.
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Svar: B. The garden is tended by a different grade each week; the cafeteria serves the vegetables in its salad bar.
The sentence is two complete thoughts, and a comma cannot join them, which is a comma splice. A semicolon can. Using no punctuation makes a run-on, and adding then after the comma still leaves two complete sentences joined by a comma alone.
6. Read the paragraph: (1) Last spring, students at Harbor Middle School planted a garden behind the gym. (2) Within months it had grown to eight raised beds, a compost bin and a rain barrel. (3) The principal's favorite food is pizza. (4) Students now sell extra vegetables at a stand every Friday. (5) The money pays for new seeds and tools. Which sentence should be deleted to keep the paragraph focused?
- A. Sentence 1
- B. Sentence 2
- C. Sentence 3
- D. Sentence 4
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Svar: C. Sentence 3
Every other sentence is about the garden: where it started, how it grew, what happens to the vegetables and where the money goes. The principal's favorite food has nothing to do with the garden, so it breaks the focus.
7. Complete the sentence so the verb tenses stay consistent.
Students plant the seeds in spring and _____ the vegetables in fall, and the cafeteria _____ them in its salad bar.
Alternativer for luke 1: harvest, harvested, harvesting, to harvest
Alternativer for luke 2: serve, serves, served, serving
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Svar: harvest, serves
The sentence is in the present tense, so the verb joined to plant must be harvest. The second blank needs a verb that agrees with the singular subject cafeteria, which is serves. The past tense would break the pattern, and an -ing form cannot stand alone as the verb.
8. Read the sentences: (1) The students planted a garden behind the gym. (2) They started with one raised bed. Which choice best combines them into one sentence?
- A. The students planted a garden behind the gym, starting with one raised bed.
- B. The students planted a garden behind the gym, they started with one raised bed.
- C. The students planted a garden behind the gym, but starting with one raised bed.
- D. Starting with one raised bed, a garden behind the gym was planted by the students.
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Svar: A. The students planted a garden behind the gym, starting with one raised bed.
The first choice keeps the meaning and puts the describing phrase right next to the students it describes. The second is a comma splice, the third adds a but that makes no sense here, and in the fourth the opening phrase seems to describe the garden, not the students.
9. A recipe uses 3 cups of flour for every 2 cups of sugar. Which amounts keep the same ratio of flour to sugar? Select all that apply.
Velg alle som passer.
- A. 6 cups of flour and 4 cups of sugar
- B. 4.5 cups of flour and 3 cups of sugar
- C. 9 cups of flour and 5 cups of sugar
- D. 5 cups of flour and 4 cups of sugar
- E. 1.5 cups of flour and 1 cup of sugar
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Svar: A. 6 cups of flour and 4 cups of sugar, B. 4.5 cups of flour and 3 cups of sugar, E. 1.5 cups of flour and 1 cup of sugar
Multiply or divide both amounts by the same number. Doubling gives 6 and 4, multiplying by 1.5 gives 4.5 and 3, and halving gives 1.5 and 1. For 9 cups of flour you would need 6 cups of sugar, not 5, and 5 to 4 is a different ratio from 3 to 2.
10. A cyclist rides 18 miles in 1.5 hours at a steady speed. At this rate, how many minutes will it take to ride 30 miles?
- A. 120
- B. 150
- C. 180
- D. 250
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Svar: B. 150
The speed is 18 divided by 1.5, which is 12 miles per hour. Then 30 miles takes 30 divided by 12, or 2.5 hours, and 2.5 hours is 150 minutes. The answer 250 comes from reading 2.5 hours as 250 minutes, and 120 and 180 are just whole numbers of hours.
11. Complete the solution.
A rectangle's length is 3 more than twice its width, and its perimeter is 36 units. Its width is _____ units.
Alternativer for luke 1: 4, 5, 6, 7
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Svar: 5
Call the width w, so the length is 2w + 3. The perimeter is 2 times the sum of the sides: 2(w + 2w + 3) = 36, so 6w + 6 = 36 and w = 5. Check: the length is 13, and 2 times 5 plus 2 times 13 is 36.
12. Complete the sentence.
Mina has $40. A notebook costs $9 and each pen costs $2.50. After buying the notebook, she can buy at most _____ pens.
Alternativer for luke 1: 10, 11, 12, 13
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Svar: 12
After the notebook she has 40 - 9 = $31. The inequality 2.50p ≤ 31 gives p ≤ 12.4, and she cannot buy part of a pen, so the most is 12. Rounding up to 13 would cost $32.50, which is more than she has.
13. A set of six numbers is 2, 3, 3, 5, 7 and 16. Which statements are true? Select all that apply.
Velg alle som passer.
- A. The mean is 6.
- B. The median is 4.
- C. The mode is 5.
- D. The range is 14.
- E. The median is greater than the mean.
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Svar: A. The mean is 6., B. The median is 4., D. The range is 14.
The numbers add up to 36, and 36 divided by 6 is 6. With six numbers the median is the average of the third and fourth, 3 and 5, which is 4. The range is 16 - 2 = 14. The mode is the most common value, 3, and the median of 4 is less than the mean of 6 because 16 pulls the mean up.
14. A fair number cube with faces 1 to 6 is rolled twice. What is the probability that the first roll is even and the second roll is greater than 4?
- A. 1/12
- B. 5/6
- C. 1/5
- D. 1/6
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Svar: D. 1/6
The rolls do not affect each other, so multiply. An even first roll has probability 3/6, or 1/2, and a second roll of 5 or 6 has probability 2/6, or 1/3. Then 1/2 times 1/3 is 1/6. Adding 1/2 and 1/3 gives 5/6, which is the mistake of adding when the question asks for both.
15. A circular pool has a diameter of 12 feet. A walkway 2 feet wide goes all the way around the pool. What is the area of the walkway?
- A. 28π square feet
- B. 4π square feet
- C. 64π square feet
- D. 112π square feet
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Svar: A. 28π square feet
The pool has a radius of 6 feet and the pool plus walkway has a radius of 8 feet. The walkway is the difference of the two circles: π times 64 minus π times 36, which is 28π. The 64π option is the whole outer circle, 4π squares only the width, and 112π uses diameters in place of radii.
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Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, eller SHSAT, er prøven New York City bruker til å avgjøre opptak til de spesialiserte high schoolene sine. NYC Public Schools kaller den den eneste faktoren, med ett unntak: LaGuardia High School tar opp etter audition. Alle som bor i New York City og går i 8. klasse, eller i 9. klasse for første gang, og som vil søke til en av de andre skolene, må ta den, enten eleven går på en offentlig, privat eller kirkelig skole. Den holdes om høsten, for opptak påfølgende september.
Prøven har to deler. English language arts (ELA) dekker revidering og redigering, altså å rette og forbedre korte tekster, og leseforståelse. Matte dekker forhold og proporsjonale sammenhenger, tallsystemet og uttrykk, likninger, ulikheter, statistikk og sannsynlighet og geometri. NYC sier at spørsmålene kommer som flervalg, fyll inn luken og teknologiforsterkede oppgaver, og at elevene velger hvilken del de begynner med.
Formatet er i endring. NYC gir prøven på datamaskin, og siden deres beskriver en datatilpasset prøve fra høsten 2026, der spørsmålene tilpasser seg svarene dine. Fordi eldre øvingsmateriell kanskje ikke stemmer, oppgir ikke denne siden antall spørsmål, tidsgrense eller poengsum. SHSAT-siden til NYC Public Schools på schools.nyc.gov viser de gjeldende, sammen med hvor og når prøven holdes.
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De 15 spørsmålene følger de publiserte innholdsområdene i miniatyr. Spørsmål 1 til 4 er leseforståelse: en hovedidé, et ord i sammenhengen, en slutning og detaljene en tekst støtter. Spørsmål 5 til 8 er revidering og redigering: en kommafeil mellom to setninger, en setning som ikke hører hjemme, verbtid og å slå sammen to setninger. Spørsmål 9 til 15 er matte: forhold, en rate, en likning, en ulikhet, statistikk, sannsynlighet og arealet av en ring.
Formatene velg alle som passer og fyll inn luken er øvingsformater som får deg til å sjekke hvert alternativ i stedet for å stoppe ved det første som ser riktig ut. Den ekte prøven blander sine egne oppgavetyper, så bruk NYCs Student Readiness Tool og offisielle nettbaserte øvingsprøver for å bli vant til skjermen og verktøyene, og bruk en smakebit som denne til flere spørsmål på ferdighetene.
Ta prøven i én økt og regn matten på papir før du ser på alternativene. Les så hver forklaring, også for spørsmålene du fikk riktig. Flere feil i samme område er mer nyttig enn en enkelt feil: gikk både forholds- og rate-spørsmålet galt, peker det på proporsjonal tenkning som ferdigheten du bør øve på.
En ærlig merknad: StudyPDF-teamet har skrevet hvert spørsmål her etter innholdsområdene NYC publiserer. Ingen av dem er ekte SHSAT-oppgaver, ingen kommer fra NYC Guide to the SHSAT, de offisielle øvingsprøvene eller boken til et forberedelsesselskap, og StudyPDF er ikke tilknyttet NYC Public Schools eller noen av skolene.
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