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150 multiple-choice questions and 55 flashcards, written to the HSPT blueprint. Every question carries a full rationale.
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HSPT — 5 sections: Verbal Skills, Quantitative Skills, Reading, Mathematics, Language
CoStudy's HSPT (High School Placement Test) bank holds 205 items. Every multiple-choice question carries a written rationale explaining why the correct answer is correct and why each distractor is tempting but wrong.
A sample of 12 multiple-choice questions from the bank, with the full rationale shown.
STRATEGY — HSPT guessing penalty is:
Answer: C — None — always answer
A/B/D) Wrong. C) Correct — no penalty. Always answer.
MATH — 2³ × 2² = ?
Answer: A — 2⁵
Add exponents: 2^(3+2)=2⁵. A) Correct.
READING — Same passage. Inference?
Answer: D — Bee loss could threaten the food supply
B) Correct — implied. A/C/D) Half-right or unsupported.
COMPUTATION — One-third of 60, plus 5:
Answer: D — 25
20+5=25. B) Correct.
READING — Passage: 'Bees pollinate one-third of food crops. Without bees, harvests collapse. Protecting bee habitats matters for farming.' Main idea?
Answer: A — Bees matter for food production
B) Correct. A/C/D) Off-topic or trivial.
LANGUAGE — Choose the CORRECT sentence:
Answer: B — Between you and me
After preposition 'between' → object pronoun 'me.' B) Correct.
MATH — Convert 3/4 to a percent.
Answer: D — 75%
3/4 = 0.75 = 75%. D) Correct.
SYNONYM — Which is closest to FATIGUED?
Answer: C — Tired
C) Correct. A) Antonym. B/D) Related but wrong.
MATH — Table: 5 days at $40 = ?
Answer: C — $200
5×40=200. C) Correct.
SERIES — Next: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___?
Answer: D — 13
Fibonacci: 5+8=13. B) Correct.
SYNONYM — CONCEAL most nearly means:
Answer: A — Hide
B) Correct. A) Antonym (direction reversal).
READING — VOCABULARY — 'A perilous journey.' Perilous means:
Answer: A — Dangerous
B) Correct. A) Antonym.
6 sample cards from the 55 in the bank.
Non-geometric comparison?
Compare two or three mathematical expressions. 'Which is greater: A) 3² + 1, B) 2³, C) 10/2?' → A = 10, B = 8, C = 5 → A.
Volume basics?
Rectangular prism: V = lwh. Cylinder: V = πr²h. Sphere: V = (4/3)πr³.
Section-specific prep?
Verbal: vocab + analogies daily. Quant: number patterns + mental math drills. Reading: read daily. Math: timed problem sets. Language: rule-based grammar drills.
Language structure?
60 questions, 25 min. Tests grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, composition. NOT essay-based.
Best prep timeline?
6-8 weeks of consistent practice. ~45 min daily. 2-3 full timed practice tests during the prep period.
Apostrophes?
Possession (boy's bike, boys' bikes) or contraction (it's = it is). 'Its' (no apostrophe) = possessive.
These samples are a small slice. The full bank runs flashcards, multiple choice and timed mock exams with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.
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The HSPT (High School Placement Test) bank holds 205 items: 150 multiple-choice questions, 55 flashcards. 18 of them are on this page to read free, with no signup.
Yes. Every multiple-choice item carries a written rationale that states the controlling principle behind the correct answer and then addresses each wrong option in turn — why it tempts and precisely where it fails. Knowing why the plausible answer was wrong is worth more than knowing which letter was right.
The samples on this page are free to read in full, rationales included, with no account. The complete 205-item bank, the timed mock exams and per-chapter progress tracking are part of CoStudy on the web and in the iOS app.
Last reviewed 2026-08-22. Banks are written against the certifying body's published exam outline and re-checked when that outline changes — exams get renumbered, retired and reweighted, and a bank written to a superseded outline teaches the wrong proportions. Figures that are re-indexed annually are deliberately not asserted as rules; the questions test the governing principle instead.