Strategy lessons
Practice this topic
The bank includes 81 questions on word problems: 14 easy, 41 medium, 26 hard.
Why this question type matters on the HSAT
The HSAT Math section has 30 questions in 30 minutes — about a minute each. There is no calculator, so mental-math fluency matters as much as conceptual knowledge.
Word problems test all the math topics in a real-world wrapper. The trick is to define a variable and translate carefully — keywords matter.
Other topics
Topics are aligned to 8th-grade Common Core standards. The actual CPS HSAT covers slightly more than these buckets but the core mix is the same.