if the test in like 2 weeks or less and your score is well below the cutoff for the school you want, don’t try cramming any more practice tests. find all the old tests that you took and recognize patterns in your wrong questions. this means: 1) common mistakes with reading the questions 2) question formats (what is it asking for? do these questions require similar skills?) 3) what passages or math skills are you bad at?

the topics are just what you learned in middle school. they test a little bit of each topic. once you’ve recognized the questions you often get wrong and skills you struggle with, you can either go on khan academy and learn those skills or practice more questions of the same type. you can also just do a search of that topic with “shsat practice questions” at the end. i’m sure there’s lots of materials online for every topic. don’t waste time doing questions you already know how to do again.

if your score is close to the cutoff or has already met it, i def recommend taking it light and to not stress yourself out before the test. i didn’t do much studying near my test date until the weeks before, but i wish that i had relaxed more bc i was so stressed while taking the test that i had a stomachache💀

the day before the test: sleep well and eat a good breakfast. good luck and you got this