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| HSPT Structure | The HSPT, or High School Placement Test, is used by a lot of Catholic schools, as well as other private schools, as a tool to evaluate applicants from diverse middle-schools. The HSPT is given by individual schools and is in general taken at the school to which a student is applying. The test is administered by individual high schools to eighth graders applying to their schools. You will need to make contact with the schools you are interested in straight as they schedule and administer their own tests for specifics on costs and dates.
The HSPT takes approximately two and a half hours to complete and has five multiple-choice segments:
• Verbal: A 16-minute segment with 60 questions incorporates synonyms, antonyms, analogies, logic, and verbal classification problems.
• Quantitative: A 30-minute segment with 52 questions including geometric comparisons, non-geometric comparisons, and number manipulations.
• Reading: A 25-minute section with 62 questions covering several short reading passages on a variety of topics.
• Mathematics: At 45-minutes in length, this section is the longest and has 64 questions covering arithmetic, elementary algebra, and basic geometry.
• Language: A 25-minute section with 60 questions covering capitalization, punctuation, usage, spelling, and composition.
 The HSPT is one of the most generally used high school tests in the country. The cognitive abilities questions have a tendency to be similar to those found in IQ tests, at the same time as the achievement questions are in the traditional format.
In addition the school may manage not obligatory test sections such as science, mechanical ability, and catholic religion. The results on these sections are not incorporated in the standardized score used for admission and placement.
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