A free SHSAT practice test that behaves like a test
One full-length paper — 100 questions in 180 minutes, timed at the real exam's pacing — scored the moment you finish: an estimated composite, the ELA and math split, and the topics that cost the most points. It takes a free account and no card.
What the free sitting includes — stated before you start, not after
Included free
- One full sitting of Mock Exam 1 — the complete 100-question paper, under the clock.
- The estimated composite score, kept on your account.
- The ELA / math section split and the topic breakdown — which areas lost the points.
What a plan adds
- The per-question review: which items were wrong, the correct answer, and why — beyond the single worked example free accounts see.
- Mock Exams 2 through 6 — five more fixed papers for tracking progress on fresh questions.
- Re-sits of any paper — allowed, but always labelled, because a paper you have seen measures memory as much as skill.
One sitting only on the free plan, and it cannot be retaken — the score and breakdown from that sitting are free and stay free. Treat it like exam day rather than a browse: the whole point of a fixed paper is that the first attempt is the honest one.
Why the score is worth believing
The paper is fixed
Mock Exam 1 is the same paper for every student, in the same order — not a random draw. A score means the same thing for your child as for anyone else who sat it.
Its questions are reserved
No question on any mock paper ever appears in practice, the diagnostic or the daily mission. A student cannot walk into the paper having already seen a third of it — which is the usual way a practice-test score flatters.
The clock is the real clock
180 minutes for 100 questions — 108 seconds each, the official Fall 2026 pacing. Untimed practice hides the one problem a timed paper exposes: pace.
Accommodations are on the menu
Standard time, 1.5×, 2× or untimed — the same menu the real exam offers through an IEP or 504 plan. A student who will test with extended time should practise with it.
How to make the one sitting count
- Sit it in one block, on a weekend morning — the real exam is three hours, and stamina is part of what it measures.
- Do not burn it in week one. A better use: sit the 10-minute diagnostic first, practise the weak topics for a few weeks, then spend the mock to see whether the work moved the score.
- Read the result as an estimate with a margin, not a verdict. One paper is one sample of one day — the trend across practice weeks matters more than any single number.
Not ready to give up three hours? The diagnostic is the lighter start: twenty questions, about ten minutes, and an estimated composite with an honest margin on it. It draws from a different pool, so taking it costs you nothing off the mock.
One thing to be clear about: the official Fall 2026 SHSAT is computer-adaptive, and this is fixed-form practice — every student gets the same paper. What that difference means, and why the skills being tested are unchanged, is explained on the 2026 changes page.
The official Fall 2026 SHSAT will be computer-adaptive. SHSATus currently provides fixed-form digital practice based on DOE-published content areas and question types. It does not reproduce the DOE's adaptive item-selection or scoring algorithm.