23Nov
Top 5 Most Competitive SSAT Schools of 2016
The results are in! Here are the top 5 most competitive SSAT schools of 2016, based on the number of students who stated their intention to apply.
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06Oct
Info for International Students
Every year, there are increasing numbers of international applicants to private high schools and boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada. A North American high school education has a number of benefits, including a greater understanding of the college application process, academic readiness for a college education, and immersion in...
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16Sep
Big News! Test Innovators Launches the PSAT
Did you know that excelling on the PSAT qualifies you for special recognition and money for college? It’s true – the PSAT is actually named the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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14Jan
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.
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27Oct
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...
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15Oct
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.
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01Oct
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.
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28Aug
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
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19Aug
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.
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07Aug
Did grade level affect performance on ISEE practice tests?
This is the first in a three-part series of data analysis posts. We wanted to investigate how a student's grade level affected their performance on our ISEE tests. {C}In the first part, we'll show you our findings about fifth versus sixth grade performance.
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