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TheISEE,mapped.
The ISEE decides admissions files at private schools across the country, and it tests material most students have not seen in class: quantitative comparisons, sentence completions, and vocabulary well above grade level. We mapped what each level actually asks, from Lower through Upper, so prep fits the student and the deadline.
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ISEE · The pattern map
Whatshowsup.
These are not guesses. Each one appears on the ISEE again and again, and each one is teachable in a session or two.
01
Quantitative comparisons
A question format that exists almost nowhere else in school. Students who practice it stop losing easy points to it.
02
Sentence completions
Vocabulary in context, where the sentence itself tells you the answer if you know how to read it.
03
Synonyms above grade level
The verbal section draws on words most students meet here for the first time. The list is finite.
04
Reading the long way down
Passages longer and denser than classwork, with questions that reward method over rereading.
The essentials
Format
Verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, reading comprehension, and mathematics achievement, plus an unscored essay.
Levels
Lower, Middle, and Upper levels cover applicants to grades 5 through 12.
Dates
Offered year-round in three testing seasons. A student may test once per season.
