Did you miss last week’s webinars about the SSAT and ISEE essay sections? Don’t worry—you can still check out the recordings.
Many admissions directors describe the test’s essay section as one of the most important parts of the application, indicating a student’s writing ability, interests, and personality with no external influences.
Join our experts as they discuss everything you need to know about the essay section and how to present yourself and your writing as effectively as possible. You’ll learn tips and tricks for how to effectively plan, write, edit, and execute a quality admissions essay in under 30 minutes.
You took the ISEE, but when you get your scores back, they aren’t what you were hoping for. So you wonder, “Can I take the test again?” Yes, you can retake the ISEE. There are three testing seasons in every 12-month admission cycle, and you can take the test once...
Yesterday evening our Director of Education Brenna O'Neill educated the masses on everything you need to know about the ISEE; from test content to the strategies you need to succeed on the official test. You can view the recording below:
The Middle Level SSAT and the Upper Level SSAT take a total of 3 hours and 5 minutes, including two breaks between sections and the experimental section at the end.
Across our platform, students exhibit statistically significant increases in test percentile after every practice test. We see that our students don’t just improve by using our platform, but they improve consistently over time, further reinforcing that practice makes perfect.
The Mathematics Achievement (MA) section of the ISEE Test is intended to reflect curriculum related questions, in contrast to the Quantitative Reasoning section which is intended to measure students’ reasoning abilities.
You’ve completed the ISEE—congratulations! You might now be wondering how long it will take for your scores to arrive. It depends on how you took the test!
You may know about the content differences between the ISEE and the SSAT from our previous post here. But there are also big geographic differences. Schools in Georgia, for example, never use the ISEE for admission, while schools in Texas never ask for SSAT scores.
We all know that cramming before a test is not the best strategy for success, especially when it comes to admissions tests like the SSAT, ISEE, HSPT, ACT, and SAT. So, when should students start preparing? Short answer: early. Longer answer: at least six to eight months before test day.
Some students...
