More than 100 parents rallied at Queens Borough Hall Thursday night against Mayor de Blasio’s plans to eliminate the single-test requirement for admission into the city’s top high schools.

“Keep the test, keep the test!” parents chanted, referring to the SHSAT.

Mazeda Uddin, founder of the South Asian Fund for Education, Scholarship & Training, called de Blasio’s proposed overhaul of the admission policy “an attack on immigrants.”

Many Bangladeshi parents sacrifice by working two or three low-wage jobs to pay for the tutoring and special classes to help their kids become high academic achievers. “Merit is not a crime,” Uddin said.

Inside the Kew Gardens hall, the Senate Education Committee held a community forum on the controversial admissions policy and proposed changes to it.

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