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                    Middlesex                       La Salle Academy
  Moses Brown                       Deerfield                       Bishop Hendricken
  Portsmouth Abbey                  Choate                          St. Raphael Academy
  Providence Country Day            Concord                         Mount St. Charles
  Wheeler School                    Brooks                          Bay View Academy
  Rocky Hill                        Avon Old Farms                  Portsmouth Abbey
                                    Pomfret                         Prout
                                    St. George's                    Bishop Feehan
                                    St. Mark's                      Bishop Stang
                                    Milton                          Bishop Keough
                                    Portsmouth Abbey                Our Lady of Fatima
                                    Tabor
                                    Roxbury Latin
                                    Northampton
                                    Dana Hall
                                    Northfield Mt. Herman
                                    Gunnery
                                    Williston
                                    Tabor
                                    Canterbury