<p>Congrats on those great SSAT scores. And for those of you who didn’t do so well…keep in mind that my 99 percentile kid was waitlisted at two schools where others with much lower scores were accepted. SSAT’s are not the alpha and omega of prep school entry.</p>
<p>ifax: Did you look at the Kaplan book? It has some great approaches for those math problems that seem like they’d take a long time, but actually can be solved quickly once you know the way to approach them.</p>
<p>@SevenDad,
Congratulations on your daughter’s score.</p>
<p>@classicalmama,
I have the Kaplan’s SSAT book. I didn’t use it when preparing this time though. I’m definitely using it this time. I’m also getting a tutor so I hope that my math scores will be a >70. And you’re right about the SSAT not being everything. The smartest kid I know got a 79 on the SSAT. So I’m pretty sure AOs can spot smart kids who will succeed at Academy X (I want to get this book so bad) even if they have kind of crummy SSAT scores.</p>
<p>Is there some reason I haven’t gotten my SSAT scores yet? I believe they were supposed to arrive today…</p>
<p>@pandapandaa: The SSAT site said our scores were supposed to arrive yesterday and they arrived today. We are fairly close to Skillman, NJ…so I suspect you should get yours in the next day or so…</p>
<p>no practice. 99%.</p>
<p>@Rellie: Congrats!</p>
<p>Will be interesting to see how it all sorts out after the “black box” process of admissions.</p>
<p>:) I just got my ISEE scores back. </p>
<p>Verbal Reasoning: 98th Percentile
Reading Comprehension: 95th Percentile
Quantitative Reasoning: 99th Percentile
Mathematics Achievement: 95th Percentile</p>
<p>Whew, all the work payed off. </p>
<p>I will be reporting back on my SSAT scores after I take it in November.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>@markalex: Congrats! That’s a relief, isn’t it? Best of luck on the SSAT.</p>
<p>I found this interesting (after our back and forth about the ISEE vs. SSAT):</p>
<p>[Education</a> Matters: ISEE vs. SSAT](<a href=“http://bostontutoringcenter.blogspot.com/2009/06/isee-vs-ssat.html]Education”>Education Matters: ISEE vs. SSAT)</p>
<p>Any advice for the verbal and reading sections?</p>
<p>@2010,
For the verbal, if you read you should be fine. I missed 12 questions and I still got a 94% so don’t worry too much about it. With the reading, it’s more of luck. My friend who took the SSAT with me only missed 3 questions on the reading section, and got in the mid 80’s.</p>
<p>@grinzing</p>
<p>Correlated, yes; predictor, no.</p>
<p>My D is a freshman at a HADES school. She scored 67% on SSAT. She was an A- student at her day school, which did not use standardized testing. And now she is an honor roll student at her BS (one of the “better” HADES schools).</p>
<p>@Boston:</p>
<p>Correlations are based on averages and are not 100% predictive. Every correlation has its outliers. Your D is one of them. Congratulations on your D achievements.</p>
<p>There are multiple confounding factors re: SSAT. One of them being the level of effort put into it by different people. So the performance varies. Preparation does help, however, to different extents with different people. Some kids can ace SSAT without any prep, while with others, a lot of prep only increases their scores marginally.</p>
<p>Hey :), in response to the original post (I haven’t read all of the rest of the thread, so I can’t really respond to the current conversation), my scores from the Princeton Review book were slightly higher than my scores from the actual SSAT, but only verrrryyyy slightly (my overall percentile was consistant with the PR test). When I took the practice tests, I didn’t time myself with an iron fist, but I made sure I took no more than ten minutes extra time. Obviously, I felt more stress to deliver on the day of the test, so maybe my SLIGHTLY decreased scores were a result of that too. Basically, when my scores arrived, I wasn’t shocked.</p>
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<p>I suspect Exie’s great example of a child getting perfect SSATs without speaking a word of English holds here as well. When creating a community, AOs certainly factor in more than sheer (or purported) intellectual brilliance.</p>
<p>Is Kaplan a good Review? Similar to the real one?</p>
<p>Kaplan’s is a good test prep book. I like the way they explain Analogies, and I think they have the best Math practice.</p>
<p>However, I didn’t like their practice tests. I didn’t find them realistic. To be perfectly honest, most test prep books have crappy practice tests. You’ll find the best practice tests by buying the actual SSAT prep book with the practice tests.</p>
<p>Thank you, I live by a library, so i borrowed Princeton Review, Barrons, Kaplan, and Petersons. And I purchased the Preparing and Applying by SSATB (Secondary School Admission Test Board. Kind of obvious, I know, don’t need to hate.)</p>
How would you rank the books in order of usefulness? I have all as well.
Dude I just cant do reading…ITS SO HARD TO COMPREHEND WHAT THEY’re SAYING! How do you nail reading???