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Your ticket to the private school of your choice The Secondary School Aptitude Test (SSAT) and Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE) are the two most common standardized aptitude tests used in American private secondary schools. If you're a parent or student looking to apply for admissions at a private, military, or boarding school, SSAT & ISEE For Dummies is your family's ticket to success.
Here, you'll get all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE exams, the most up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions, thorough test-specific math and verbal workouts, six full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice.
State-by-state "Private Schools at-a-Glance" chart with data on more than 1,000 private secondary schools
SSAT & ISEE For Dummies provides students with the resources they need for test day preparation and gives parents sound, expert advice on selecting, applying, and paying for private school.
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Vince Kotchian is an elite test-prep tutor and admissions consultant who has helped hundreds of students get into the schools of their choice. Curt Simmons is a professional educator and freelance writer who has authored several test-prep titles on a variety of topics, including many *For Dummie*s titles.
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Your ticket to the private school of your choice
The Secondary School Aptitude Test (SSAT) and Independent School
Entrance Examination (ISEE) are the two most common standardized
aptitude tests used in American private secondary schools. If
you're a parent or student looking to apply for admissions at a
private, military, or boarding school, SSAT & ISEE For
Dummies is your family's ticket to success.
Here, you'll get all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT
and ISEE exams, the most up-to-date information on the tests,
hundreds of practice questions, thorough test-specific math and
verbal workouts, six full-length practice tests (all with detailed
answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice.
Correctly answer difficult analogy and synonym questions
without knowing what all the words mean
Ace the math section by eliminating answers that are planted to
fool test takers
Apply the proven For Dummies step-by-step approach to combat
the essay portion
Analyze difficult passages using tips and tricks in the reading
comprehension section
Learn the most common vocabulary words tested on the SSAT and
ISEE with an entire chapter devoted to vocabulary terms
State-by-state "Private Schools at-a-Glance" chart with data on
more than 1,000 private secondary schools
SSAT & ISEE For Dummies provides students with the
resources they need for test day preparation and gives parents
sound, expert advice on selecting, applying, and paying for private
school.
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 2
How This Book Is Organized 3
Part I: Paving the Way to Private School: Introducing the SSAT and ISEE 3
Part II: Ramping Up for the Verbal, Reading, and Essay Sections 3
Part III: Tackling the Math Sections 3
Part IV: SSAT Practice Exams 3
Part V: ISEE Practice Exams 4
Part VI: The Part of Tens 4
Icons Used in This Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part I: Paving the Way to Private School: Introducing the SSAT and ISEE 5
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the SSAT and ISEE 7
Approaching the SSAT and ISEE 7
Testing your ability 7
Knowing what to expect from test questions 8
Preparing yourself: Practice makes perfect 8
Getting to Know the SSAT 9
Exploring the structure of the SSAT 9
Separating the upper and lower level SSAT 10
Scoring the SSAT 10
How questions are graded 10
What is sent to your school 11
How your school uses the score 11
Registering for the SSAT 12
Knowing what to bring to the SSAT testing center 12
Scoping Out the ISEE 13
Understanding what's on the ISEE 14
Comparing the upper, middle, and lower level ISEE 14
Upper level ISEE 15
Middle level ISEE 15
Lower level ISEE 15
Scoring the ISEE 16
How questions are graded 16
What is sent to your school 16
How your school uses the score 17
Registering for the ISEE 17
Figuring out what to bring to the ISEE testing center 17
Chapter 2: Picking Up Study Skills and Techniques for Testing Success 19
Clocking Your Time 19
Practice, practice, practice 20
Resist the urge to finish 20
Skip questions 20
Using the Process of Elimination 21
Figuring Out a Guessing Strategy 23
Guessing on the ISEE 23
Guessing on the SSAT 24
Part II: Ramping Up for the Verbal, Reading, and Essay Sections 25
Chapter 3: Defining Your Vocabulary Skills 27
Studying Vocabulary 27
Flipping through flashcards 27
Memorizing mnemonic devices 28
Interpreting words in context 28
Using repetition 29
Breaking Down Vocabulary Words 29
Digging up roots 29
Starting with prefixes 31
Ending with suffixes 32
Vocabulary Practice: Lower Level SSAT and Lower and Middle Level ISEE 33
Vocabulary Practice: Upper Level SSAT and ISEE 36
Chapter 4: Talking Up Verbal Reasoning 41
What Verbal Reasoning Looks Like 41
Making Sense of Analogies 42
Mapping out your strategy for analogies 42
Put the words in a sentence that shows the relationship 43
Plug the answer choices in to your sentence 43
When in doubt, refine the sentence 44
When you don't know a word (or several), look for clues 45
When you have trouble establishing the relationship, dig deeper 46
Trying your hand at analogy practice questions 46
Getting the Scoop on Synonyms 48
Planning your synonym attack strategy 48
Checking out a few sample synonym questions 49
Filling in Sentence Completion Questions 50
Building a strategy for sentence completion 50
Working through a few sentence completion questions 51
Chapter 5: Practicing Verbal Reasoning 53
Tackling Guided Lower Level SSAT Analogy Questions 53
Practicing Lower Level SSAT Analogy Questions on Your Own 55
Answers to Lower Level SSAT Analogy Questions 57
Tackling Guided Upper Level SSAT Analogy Questions 58
Practicing Upper Level SSAT Analogy Questions on Your Own 60 Answers to Upper Level SSAT Analogy Questions 62</p...