Stop guessing where
to start a student.
The first session is the one you can least afford to waste. Sit a new student down with a full-length evaluation and you will know, before you plan a single lesson, which topics are costing them points and which are already safe.
A parent asks what their child needs. What do you say?
Most tutors answer that question from a short conversation and a few sample problems. It is an honest guess, and it is usually a bit wrong. A student who reads slowly can look like a student who cannot infer, and a student who has simply never seen ratio problems can look weak at math in general.
Without a baseline
You spend the first three sessions finding out what you are dealing with, the family pays for those sessions, and you have no way to prove at the end that anything moved. If the score improves, you cannot say by how much.
With one
You walk into the first real lesson knowing the exact topics costing points, in order. The family sees a number on day one and the same measure at the end, and the difference between them is your case for renewing.
Evaluate, teach, measure again.
The same loop for every student, whether you teach one or forty.
Start with a full sitting
A full-length, timed sitting before you teach anything, in whichever family the student is preparing for. The practice exams within a family are interchangeable, and on the SHSAT the sitting is adaptive, so it finds the student's level rather than confirming they cannot do the hard questions.
Read the breakdown
Section by section and topic by topic, with every wrong answer explained. Not only which ones they missed, but the particular mistake that led there. That is your lesson plan, written for you.
Re-test on a fresh exam
Different questions, same difficulty. A student who improves has actually improved, rather than remembered. Sixty-six practice exams mean you can evaluate, teach and re-test repeatedly without a student ever meeting a question twice.
Built to be taught from.
- Sixty-six full-length practice exams: four SHSAT, six TACHS, four HSPT, six ISEE across its three levels, twelve State Tests for grades 3 to 8, ten AP multiple-choice exams across five subjects, two full-length ASVAB exams, and twenty-two NYC civil service practice exams across eleven titles: Police Officer, School Safety Agent, Correction Officer, Traffic Enforcement Agent, Special Officer, Motor Vehicle Operator, Environmental Police Officer, Police Communications Technician, Probation Officer, Stock Worker and the NYC Bridge Exam. Every question and passage written in-house. Nothing licensed, nothing recycled from a released test.
- Genuinely adaptive SHSAT sittings, matching the computer-adaptive format the exam moved to in fall 2026.
- Every wrong answer explained , each distractor carries the reasoning error that leads to it, so a missed question is a teaching point rather than a red mark.
- Timed, locked sections, so a practice score means something. Students cannot drift back to a finished section or take an hour over a twenty-minute paper.
- Students never see the answer key, their own score, or another student's work. The report goes to you and to the family.
- No repeat between exams. No passage, reading question, grammar item or math question appears on two exams, checked mechanically on every build.
You buy credits, not seats.
Nobody should pay per student per exam and then argue about a student who never logged in. Buy credits, spend them when you actually use them, and they do not expire.
5 credits unlocks an exam
Once. The exam is then yours, and the first student you assign it to is included. Unlock one and you can use it as your standard intake for as long as you like.
1 credit per extra student
Every student after the first on that same exam. Assign, unassign and reassign the same student as often as you need. You are charged once for that pairing, never again.
A worked example. You take on eight new students and want every one of them evaluated before you start. That is 5 credits to unlock one exam plus 7 for the students after the first, 12 credits. At the 15-credit price that is $79.99 for eight full-length diagnostics, with three credits left over.
Your own login, separate from the families you teach.
A tutor account holds your students, your credits and your reports. Parents who buy directly have their own accounts, and the two never mix.
- Add students yourself. No waiting on a family to register before you can test them.
- One roster, one balance, one place to see how every student is progressing.
- Reports carry your practice name, so you can hand them to a family as your own work.
- Assign the same exam across your roster and compare results side by side.
Already have one? Sign in to the tutor portal. Questions first: hello@nyexam.com.
The things tutors ask first.
Can I use these with students preparing for a school I don't know well?
Yes. The SHSAT exams target the NYC specialized high schools, and the TACHS exams target Catholic high school admissions in New York. Both are built from the published content outlines, and our cutoff-score tool shows what a given score tends to be worth at each school.
Do my students need their own email addresses?
No. You create a sign-in for each student from your roster. They use it to sit the exam and nothing else. They never see a score, an answer key, or another student's work.
What about consent for children under 13?
Every student needs consent on file before they can sit anything, and it is recorded per student. A tutor can confirm they have the family's authorization to enroll a student, and that confirmation is stored against the tutor's name. A family can withdraw at any time, which deletes that student's data.
Can I re-test a student without them seeing the same questions?
Yes, and this is checked rather than assumed. No passage, reading question, grammar item or math question appears on more than one exam, and the build refuses to publish an exam that breaks that rule.
Do credits expire?
No. Buy them when it suits you and spend them when a student arrives. If you stop taking students for a summer, the balance is still there in September.
Do you have Regents or the state tests?
The State Tests are live for grades 3 to 8, and so is the ISEE at all three levels: sixty-six full-length exams in all, alongside the SHSAT, TACHS and HSPT. Regents comes after that, and a tutor account reaches each one the moment it opens.