There are many different steps in the New York private school application process, and some specific types of private schools have their own testing requirements. The Catholic Private Schools in NYC, for example, require up to three of the standard admissions tests for incoming students currently at the 8th grade level.
There are three common Catholic high school admissions tests
1. CHSEE (formally known as the COOP test) is the Catholic High School Entrance Exam
2. HSPT is the High School Placement Test
3. TACHS is the Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools
The Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools, also known as TACHS is required for admission to the Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens or the Archdiocese of New York in 2009-2010.
The Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools, or TACHS, tests students abilities in many different areas, including the standard Reading, Mathematics, Language, but also including an entire section on logical ability and reasoning.
The first two sections of the test, Reading and Language, are assessed and applied by the following techniques:
NYC Private School (Catholic) Admissions Test, Part 1:
READING
There are two sections to the reading test: vocabulary and reading comprehension. In the vocabulary test, students will be asked to answer vocabulary questions that measure their understanding of the words from the general academic reading vocabulary. Each word appears in a short phrase that is intended to establish a frame of reference but does not give clues to the meaning of the word. This test will evaluate general word knowledge rather than understanding of specialized or technical vocabulary.
In the reading comprehension test, the student will be presented with a variety of materials. Content may include fiction, poetry, interviews, biographical sketches, a social studies topic, or a science topic. The questions will measure students’ ability to answer questions in factual, interpretative, and evaluative comprehension. They may have to answer questions about main idea, author’s purpose, the meaning of a word in context, and other types of comprehension questions.
New York Private Schools Admissions tests such as the TACHS are very, taxing, on the student.
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Your child’s test scores are an important part of their NYC Private School Admission. Reading the test scores and understanding them, however, can be a job unto itself.
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