Hi,
My testing date is looming closer (November 11) and I’m finding I struggle A LOT with the verbal section. The reading section is also a weakness of mine. However, my math is pretty good, but I tend to make 1-2 careless mistakes. Any ways to help me in all of these areas? Any suggestions for verbal help and reading comprehension help? People have told me to read newspapers and classics and I subscribed to The New York Times and I read it daily. Any other reading suggestions?
it’s a little late to be cramming, but…
quizlet, quizlet, and quizlet. the kids today love quizlet. like 21st century flashcards. it’s a thing on the computer internets. like juno or america online.
also, you should pay for the ssat company study thing, like 60 or 80 dollars. you can take a certain number of full-length practice tests, 3, i think, and they’ll point you into study help on the stuff you don’t do well on. it’s worth it. if you do well on those, you can expect to do decently well on the real test.
the best strategery is to study some every day. i assume you know that and are doing that daily.
Hey, I’m in the exact same situation as you! I’m registered for the November 11th as well, and reading and verbal is seriously killing me! Also, being an international student, the units in the maths section catch me out EVERY time! I guess one of my tips for studying for verbal is to just print out a bunch of practise questions from online, or find some cheap kindle versions and do them. When you get them wrong, search up the word, then you’re slowly gaining knowledge by doing!
My daughter is taking it that day as well. We took a word list (maybe 500 words) from one of the practice books and she’s typing them and we are briefing defining them. She’s also using s Quizlet set that has about 500 words as well.
So far, my practice test scores are around 2350-2370> I was wondering if maybe it’s possible to keep this up during the actual test???
@GnarWhail Yeah, for vocab I’m using Quizlet and studying roots, prefixes, and suffixes. My vocab is still my weakest point… For math, usually I make 0-1 mistakes and for reading comp I make 2-3 mistakes
Ridiculous SSAT word of the day would be? Find a word that you have never used and that no teenager you know would actually use in real life— then use that world at school’ at home or Starbucks It’s kind of fun to stump friends and impress parents@@ daily game we play at home— fun way to learn words while spreading good cheer this week :o3 Today’s SSAT word was Winsome “ Oh @skieurope is a winsome young man”
Good luck on Saturday, kids!
As a non-native English speaker, I have to thank Marvel Comics for teaching me this word, since they often refer to Janet van Dyne as the Winsome Wasp. 
i know it’s a bit late, but do any of you have tips on the reading section? i struggle the most there and I’m already studying with quizlet and going through practice books for math, but nothing really sticks in terms of reading! ive looked at other forums for reading tips, but nothing really helps? thank you!
The reading section is, by reputation, the most difficult to raise quickly, as it rewards students who read a lot, and that’ not something one can just cram. The one tip I’ve heard is that, unlike some other tests, you should not make inferences in reading the the SSAT passages because the answer to the questions are all in the passage itself.
i enjoy reading and everything, seriously enjoy it, but its for some reason difficult to comprehend it all at once. i’ll try your tip though, thanks
Speaking of word of the days, @Golfgr8, my kids (both of them) use the word whilst on a regular basis. Where do they get this??? DH and I, whilst having higher educations, never use words like that!
My friends from the UK use “whilst” all the time— but it siounds funny when I say it. Here is your analogy for the day:
Eagle is to Albatross as 3 is to ?
4
2
Maybe, but wrong order, @CaliPops. Isn’t order one of the basic heuristics for these simple tasks?
Perhaps I’m missing something, which is entirely possible.
My reasoning: This is a golf question (by @Golfgr8); an eagle is 2 under par, which would be a 3 on a par 5; an albatross is 3 under par, which would be a 2 on a par 5. So an Eagle (3) --> Albatross (2).
I could see reversing the order if Eagle was equated to 2 (as in 2 under par), in which case I can see equating Albatross to 3 (as in 3 under par). What am I missing here?
Your right! Here I am thinking this is a logic test and all along it’s an example of culturally biased testing!! I’m originally from low SES and never got into the golf thing. But it’s a good lesson for future elite snobs at BS!
I was simply looking at syllabification and the fact that words are constructed from syllables (basically) while integers are constructed from units. If you didn’t know that eagle and albatross ate golf terms you would never get the analogy as posited.
But then again you dont belong at BS either!
Hmmmmm. Interesting…I had no idea about those golf terms…the closest I’ve gotten is driving the cart at corporate events!