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Private School Admissions · Middle and Upper

TheSSAT.

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TheSSAT,mapped.

The SSAT opens doors at independent and boarding schools, and its verbal section is unlike anything students see in class: analogies and synonyms that reward a trained approach, not luck. We mapped what recurs at each level, so the months before the application deadline go to the material that scores.

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One sitting, real questions, timed like test day. You leave with the score-gap map. Free.

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Flexible private sessions at $200 an hour, each one aimed at the patterns the diagnostic flagged.

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5 hours to start

Point, Line, Shape, Field turn related patterns into a defined teaching arc. Point starts at $1,000 total.

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SSAT · The pattern map

Whatshowsup.

These are not guesses. Each one appears on the SSAT again and again, and each one is teachable in a session or two.

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Analogies

The signature SSAT question. There is a fixed set of relationship types, and we teach all of them.

02

Synonyms by the hundreds

A finite vocabulary pool drawn on year after year. Studying it directly beats hoping.

03

Word problems in costume

The quantitative sections dress familiar arithmetic and algebra in unfamiliar setups.

04

The guessing decision

The SSAT deducts a quarter point for wrong answers. Knowing when to guess is a scored skill.

The essentials

Format

A writing sample, then two quantitative sections, reading, and verbal.

Levels

Middle Level for applicants to grades 6 through 8, Upper Level for grades 9 through 12.

Dates

Eight standard Saturday dates a year, with flex dates available through member schools.

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