by Mike Barrett | Mar 26, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
(And why should anybody care?) If you’re planning to take a standardized test, you’ve probably devoted some thought to how you’ll prepare. But there’s one fundamental question that a lot of people never seem to ask about the whole testing...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 23, 2011 | ACT, General, ISEE, LSAT, SAT, SSAT, Tips for Tutors
(. . . even though big test prep companies make serious money by telling you otherwise . . . ) If you go looking for test prep books at your local bookstore or on Amazon, you’ll see dozens and dozens of books that claim to offer practice tests you can hone your...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 9, 2011 | ISEE, SSAT
The ISEE and the SSAT are both designed to rank the people who apply to elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. The ISEE has 5 section types. The Verbal Reasoning section has synonym questions and sentence completion questions, all multiple-choice. The...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 4, 2011 | SSAT
The Internet is full of advice on the subject of cramming vocabulary for the SSAT (and, for that matter, the ISEE, SAT, GRE, and lots of other standardized tests). Unfortunately, most of that advice is bad. Most people will tell you to study flashcards and vocab lists...
