SSAT Test Success: How You Can Help Your Child

Physically:

• Get resources: full-length SSAT practice tests, level-appropriate vocabulary lists, a watch for test day (and practice sections!), a quiet place to complete timed sections
• Help students eat well, sleep well, and exercise often

Mentally:

Organize with your child:
Connect students with a tutor or class (or you!) to:

• • When will they test?
  • How many new words can they commit to learning per week?
  • Will you help them study or quiz them?
  • When will they take diagnostic practice tests?

Emotionally:

• Build confidence. Celebrate successes and assure them that with practice they can do their best.
• Know that their happiness and success in life is actually NOT dependent on SSAT results. (If YOU are overly concerned they may become overly stressed which will NOT help them.)
• Offer an “after-test-day” award as motivation; a treat not dependent on scores. This “Woohooo, you did it!”-award can be material or a celebratory activity you’ll do together.
• Congratulate little successes along the way!