<p>My DC took the ISEE's in December his stanine scores were:
Verbal 6
Reading 4
Quantitive 6
Math 9</p>
<p>Is his reading score going to affect him getting into his top choice which only accepts 22% of applicants?</p>
<p>I was so surprised at his reading score because he started reading at 2 and has always been in the highest reading groups at school. He said that he did not even get to finish that section. I think that is why is score was so low.</p>
<p>hmm do u have percentiles?</p>
<p>bump...</p>
<p>I am also interested in how ISEE scores work in general. I found this interesting take on ISEE vs. SSAT from ISEE</a> vs. SSAT - Gifted Issues Discussion Forum, which seems to make sense: "I think the ISEE may be more difficult to score well", "the SSAT is a more run of the mill test and given to a more general population pool while the ISEE is often the exclusive test used by the more selective schools."</p>
<p>In addition, one can only take ISEE once every 6 months, so one cannot practice as they do for SSAT. I assume that the schools will take this into consideration.</p>
<p>so if i got
Verbal 9 (99 %)
Reading 9 (98 %)
Quantitive 7(81%)
Math 7 (82 %)
is that ok for a top school
also i thought the ISEE was a little easier because there is no penalty for wrong answers</p>
<p>The ISEE is certainly not the more exclusive test used by more selective schools. All of the HADES schools ask for the SSAT over the ISEE, and while you may argue that they are not necessarily the best schools for you, you may not argue that they are not the most selective and exclusive.</p>
<p>arox94, those scores are probably fine for a top-ish school.</p>
<p>are u serious? the dont deduct points for wrong answers? damn it i should have taken this test</p>
<p>In addition to the ability to re-test on the SSAT (and thus up your odds of getting a high score) one attribute of the SSAT is that it provides an overall percentage. If you have an 85 percentile rank on each of the 3 sections, your overall percentile rank will be higher than 85%. One shorthand I have heard for a good score on the ISEE is all test sections in the 7th, 8th, or 9th stanine. So, the first poster's scores are not particularly high, 3 out of 4 sections are average, while the second person who posted ISEE scores does have high scores, everything in top 3 stanines.</p>
<p>OP again. The school that he wants to go to said that they look for 6's and 7's stanines at a minimum. I am very worried about his reading score. He will have great recs from his language arts and math teacher and his gpa for the past 2 years was 4.0 in his GT and advanced programs. His principal even wrote him a letter of reccomendation. He is a African American, plays travel soccer, and tennis, plays cello and piano. I hope they look at all these things and over look that 4. BTW he skipped a grade so he is only 10 going into 6th grade will they ask him to repeat?</p>
<p>u might want to try to rescore for the grade he would be in if he didn't skip</p>
<p>The standardized test score is by no means the only thing that a school looks at when making admissions decisions. African Americans and some latinos do score lower than whites and some asian groups on average. The schools know this and take it into account. I don't know how old the 6th grade boys are in the school your son has applied to, but you might want to talk to the school about considering him for 5th grade as well, if they accept new students in that grade. If the school is as selective as you report, it means that many qualified students are not admitted. Good luck.</p>
<p>This may help to understand ISEE scoring, Hammer's</a> Blog: How to read ISEE scores.</p>
<p>GucciHon, realize that ISEE reading is different than school reading.</p>
<p>Hi,
I have a quick question about the Upper Level ISEE math.
Specifically, what areas do they cover? (like exponents, geometry)
Thank You!</p>
<p>^
I’m sorry, I just joined and I don’t know how to post questions to the public and I need to know the answer about the Upper Level ISEE math quickly. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>ISEE presents stanine scores on a national basis and also against an independent school peer group (at least in New York). The schools in NYC only care about the peer group stanines not the national).</p>