The most comprehensive guide for the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test!
Every fall, high-achieving eighth- and ninth-grade students take the New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). Aiming for a top score to stand out from the increasingly competitive applicant pool and get a premium education at a public school, students have a 1-in-10 chance of securing admission into a specialized high school such as Stuyvesant High School; Bronx High School of Science; Brooklyn Technical High School; Brooklyn Latin School; High School for Math, Science, and Engineering at City College; High School of American Studies at Lehman College; Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, or Staten Island Technical High School.
Competition for admission gets increasingly tougher each year, but with Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, now in its sixth edition, students can get all of the materials they need to prepare for test day.
In Kaplan’s New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, students can take advantage of:
• Two full-length practice tests and the most up-to-date information about the test
• Vital practice questions in each chapter that cover all tested material
• Proven score-raising strategies with emphasis on improving math and verbal skills
• A section dedicated to the 100 most important math concepts covered on the exam
• Detailed answer explanations for each question, and useful additional practice available online

Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test provides students with everything they need to improve their scores—guaranteed. Kaplan’s Higher Score guarantee provides security that no other test preparation guide on the market can match. Kaplan has helped more than three million students to prepare for standardized tests. We know that our test-taking techniques and strategies work and our materials are completely up-to-date. Kaplan New York City Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is the must-have preparation tool for every student looking to score higher!

Essay Writing for High School Students: A Step-by-Step Guide is an indispensable guide to help students' words leap off the page. Tailored specifically to high school students, it includes:
* Details on how to write a winning essay, whether for the college application or for a standardized test such as the SAT or ACT
* Real essays that illustrate how to develop sample ideas
* Advice on how to write an essay if you're under time and space restrictions
* Tips on how to write creatively and make your words come alive

Kids are struggling with math in school, on tests, and with homework. Parents feel stressed, helpless, and math-phobic. They struggle to encourage and assist on the very subject they are least prepared to manage: MATH.Broken down using straightforward, simple language, this guide offers parents who are easily intimidated by math instructive and handy concepts to use when helping their students with homework or studying for a big test.Parents banish math phobia once and for all by facing math head-on in Math for Moms and Dads. Frequently, the issue isn’t “how to,” it’s actually “what do they want me to do?” Learning the language of math in context is the first step in the right direction for helping yourself in today’s math morass so parents can help their child find his or her way out of any math quagmire.Using a similar methodology applied in SAT Score-Raising Math Dictionary, Kaplan now focuses on the parent in this no-nonsense guide to the lexicon of math. Math terminology and key concepts are defined and decoded into regular, everyday language to promote authentic understanding of what’s at the heart of any math problem.Other helpful elements are sample problems (with answers, so parents won’t sweat it!) broken down step-by-step; calculator tips so parents can troubleshoot technology-related concerns facing their kids; visual representations of math for visual learners; and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards so parents can plan for what their children are responsible for in the upcoming grade and get the help they may need in the appropriate time frame. Finally, a handy timeline detailing which ages/grades kids need to know and master certain math skills helps parents understand the overall math snapshot for the middle school and high school years ahead.Parents (and then students) learn how to kick word problems to the curb once they figure out how to simplify the language of math with Math for Moms and Dads' easy-to-follow lexicon and resource guide!

KAPLAN CAHSEE MATHEMATICS INCLUDES: *Overview of the test*How to prepare for the test*2 full length practice tests*Quizzes at the end of each chapter*Detailed answer explanations*Complete review of tested materials*Test-taking strategies*Hundreds of practice questions for all subjects tested

KAPLAN CAHSEE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTS INCLUDES: *Overview of the test*How to prepare for the test*2 full length practice tests*Quizzes at the end of each chapter*Detailed answer explanations*Complete review of tested materials*Test-taking strategies*Hundreds of practice questions for all subjects tested