CPS HSAT POCKET PLAYBOOK YOUR LAST-MINUTE SECRET ADVANTAGE Volume 1 2025

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Introduction — Your Final Boost for Test Day

Congratulations—just by opening this Pocket Playbook you have already taken the single smartest step you can make in the forty-eight hours before the CPS High School Admissions Test. For weeks or months you’ve practiced algebra drills, devoured reading passages, and stretched your brain until the concepts felt stitched into your DNA. Now the countdown clock is flashing, nerves are whispering, and every minute must serve one purpose: turning that hard-won knowledge into points on the answer sheet.

This slim guide is purpose-built for that moment. It is not a full study manual and it makes no attempt to reteach every skill from scratch. Instead, it functions like a coach’s laminated play card—concise, portable, and instantly actionable. When you skim the next pages you will find:

Last-Minute Strategy Refreshers. Short, high-yield reminders of formulas, reading moves, and data-interpretation cues that appear on the CPS HSAT year after year.
Mental Game Tactics. Proven breathing patterns, self-talk cues, and visualization drills that settle racing thoughts in under sixty seconds.
Pitfall Alerts. A spotlight on the five mistakes that sink otherwise prepared students—careless math slips, runaway pacing, overthinking, distractions, and last-second answer changes.
Logistics & Checklists. A minute-by-minute script for the day before and the morning of your exam, plus an appendix you can print or screenshot for pocket-sized reassurance.

How to Use This Playbook

First Read (Tonight). Spend twenty minutes reading cover to cover. Highlight or underline anything that makes you say, “Oh yeah—I forget that sometimes.”
Cheat-Sheet Scan (The Night Before). Zero in on the bold bullets in Chapters 1–2 and the appendix. Close the book by 7 p.m. and let your brain consolidate.
Hallway Glance (Test Morning). While waiting to be seated, read only the headings and mantra phrases. They’ll act as mental bookmarks when the timer starts.
Emergency Reset (During the Exam). If panic strikes, open to Chapter 3 in your mind—run a 4-7-8 breath cycle, recall your self-talk line, and resume with renewed focus.

Remember: the CPS HSAT does not measure worth or potential; it measures performance on one specific day. This book exists to ensure that day reflects your true ability. You have done the heavy lifting. Let’s convert it into results.

Introduction — Your Final Boost for Test Day

Last-Minute Strategy Refreshers. Short, high-yield reminders of formulas, reading moves, and data-interpretation cues that appear on the CPS HSAT year after year.
Mental Game Tactics. Proven breathing patterns, self-talk cues, and visualization drills that settle racing thoughts in under sixty seconds.
Pitfall Alerts. A spotlight on the five mistakes that sink otherwise prepared students—careless math slips, runaway pacing, overthinking, distractions, and last-second answer changes.
Logistics & Checklists. A minute-by-minute script for the day before and the morning of your exam, plus an appendix you can print or screenshot for pocket-sized reassurance.

How to Use This Playbook

First Read (Tonight). Spend twenty minutes reading cover to cover. Highlight or underline anything that makes you say, “Oh yeah—I forget that sometimes.”
Cheat-Sheet Scan (The Night Before). Zero in on the bold bullets in Chapters 1–2 and the appendix. Close the book by 7 p.m. and let your brain consolidate.
Hallway Glance (Test Morning). While waiting to be seated, read only the headings and mantra phrases. They’ll act as mental bookmarks when the timer starts.
Emergency Reset (During the Exam). If panic strikes, open to Chapter 3 in your mind—run a 4-7-8 breath cycle, recall your self-talk line, and resume with renewed focus.