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18MayMay 18, 2016

Top 10 Most Competitive ISEE Schools

Here are the top 10 most competitive ISEE schools, based on the number of students who stated their intention to apply.

11MayMay 11, 2016

ISEE Accommodations

What kinds of accommodations are offered on the ISEE? The most common accommodation is extended time – usually 50% more on each section. Prometric offices offer two extended time options, time and a half or double time.

14JanJanuary 14, 2016

Where Do Schools Require the ISEE vs. the SSAT?

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.

09DecDecember 9, 2015

America’s Prep School Presidents

Many influential people have attended North America's wide range of independent schools. Six of them have become president! Let's take a look at these prep school Presidents.

04NovNovember 4, 2015

Which SSAT section is most important?

We get a lot of questions about the particular knowledge requirements on the SSAT, but this one is the most common: which SSAT section is the most crucial to a successful application? And as with any other question, we’ve turned to our extensive data to find the answer. We’ve heard...

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27OctOctober 27, 2015

What is the most important ISEE section?

Parents often ask us which ISEE section is the most important to a competitive application. It’s also a question we like to discuss with our internal team and with our network of tutors and school administrators. And as with everything else, we’ve analyzed our data to find the answer to...

15OctOctober 15, 2015

Video: How to Succeed on the SSAT

See how our SSAT practice system helps students around the world achieve admission to their top-choice schools.

01OctOctober 1, 2015

ISEE Success: Joseph and the $100K Scholarship

Of the hundreds of success stories we heard from last year's ISEE test takers, we were especially inspired by Joseph's. Watch his story below.

28AugAugust 28, 2015

Data Analysis: How our test takers performed by state

Over the summer, we've been poring over the tens of thousands of data points we attained from our ISEE practice test system this year. We were interested to see how students performed by question type, especially when it came to geographic location

19AugAugust 19, 2015

Where do top-performing SSAT practice test takers come from?

The SSAT has three sections: Verbal, Reading, and Quantitative. When we looked at our practice test data from this past year, we noticed that five states—Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Washington—attained the highest scores on these sections, but there were variations between each state's particular strengths.