Students taking the Specialized High School Admissions Test will face new types of questions when they take the exam this fall.
It will now take three hours for students to complete, instead of two and a half.
The verbal section, now renamed the English Language Arts section, will no longer have scrambled paragraph or logical reasoning questions.
Instead, it will focus on editing and revising sentences.
The math portion of the test will include five additional non-multiple choice questions where students have to show their work.
The Department of Education says the test has been updated to reflect the kinds of things kids learn in school.
The city's eight specialized schools include Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Tech.
They have come under fire in recent years for an apparent lack of diversity in the student body.