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Released 15 August 2026. Figures on this page are read from our live question bank and are checked on every deploy.
NY Exam puts 66 New York practice exams online, and explains every wrong answer on all of them
NY Exam has built a practice-test library covering most of the exams a New York family or job applicant is likely to sit: 66 full practice exams and 8,756 questions, spanning school admissions tests, state assessments, Advanced Placement, the military entrance battery, and eleven New York City civil service titles.
What separates it from the workbooks and free PDFs families usually find is not the size of the library. It is that every wrong answer on every exam carries its own explanation. Across the 66 exams on sale there are 25,311 wrong answers, and each one has a sentence attached saying what a student who picked it was probably thinking. None are left bare. Our build process refuses to publish if that ever stops being true.
What the library covers
For students applying to high school: the SHSAT, which decides admission to New York City’s specialized high schools, and the TACHS and HSPT, used by Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. The ISEE is covered at all three levels.
For younger children: the New York State assessments at every grade from 3 through 8, in English Language Arts and mathematics, structured the way the real week is structured, four sessions across four days.
For high school students: five Advanced Placement subjects, Psychology, Computer Science A, English Language, United States History and World History.
For adults: the ASVAB, and eleven New York City civil service titles, including Police Officer, School Safety Agent, Correction Officer, Traffic Enforcement Agent, Police Communications Technician and the Bridge Exam, which places a candidate on seven eligible lists from a single sitting.
The measurement nobody else publishes
A practice test can be beaten without being read. If the correct answer is reliably the longest of the four, a student who never reads the question scores far above the 25 percent that guessing should give, and every point of that is a lie told to a family about how ready their child is.
We measure this on our own exams and publish the result. Across every section on sale, the best that any length-based strategy scores is 40 percent against a 25 percent baseline, and a build of this site fails if any section goes above that line.
The figures were not always that good. When the measurement was first run across the whole catalogue, 46 sections and 1,741 questions were over the line, and one section could be beaten 91 percent of the time by a student who did nothing but pick the longest answer. Those sections were rewritten one wrong answer at a time. Both numbers, the old one and the new one, are published here.
How it works
Sections are timed the way the real exam times them, and a section that closes stays closed. Answers are saved as they are given, so a closed browser does not cost an hour of work, and a test can be paused and finished later on a different device. Where the real exam is untimed, as the New York State assessments are, the practice test is untimed too.
Exams can be taken whole or one section at a time, which matters for adults fitting preparation around a job.
Where the results go
For children, the score report goes to the parent or tutor, not to the child. A student finishing an exam sees a screen telling them they are done. The report, with every question, what was chosen and why it was wrong, goes to the adult who set the test. That is enforced by database permissions, not only by which screen gets shown.
Written answers are marked against the state’s published rubrics rather than skipped, which is the part of a state test a multiple-choice workbook cannot rehearse at all.
Coming to the App Store
Two iPhone and iPad apps are with Apple for review: one for students to sit their exams on, and one for parents and tutors to buy exams, assign them and read the reports. There is no purchasing of any kind inside the student app, deliberately, because its users are children. We will announce them here when they are approved. Nothing on this site is waiting on them.
Free samples
Every exam family has a free ten-question sample that needs no account, no email address and no card. Reporters are welcome to sit one at nyexam.com/try, or to ask us for a full login.
About NY Exam
NY Exam is an independent practice-test publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. All questions, passages and explanations are original material written for the site. It contains no real test questions and no material reproduced from any testing organization, and it is not affiliated with, authorized by or endorsed by any testing organization, school district or education department.
Press contact
Chaim Lebowits
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