🐣ISEE® Lower Level

34 questions in 20 minutes: 17 synonyms, 11 one-word blanks and 6 phrase blanks, drawn as meanings that overlap and arrows that flip.

How a Synonym Question Works · Guessing Your Own Word First · Splitting Two Choices That Both Fit · Prefixes: The Piece Stuck On The Front · +15 more

Five passages of 300 to 600 words, five questions each, built on ERB's six strands: main idea, supporting ideas, inference, vocabulary, organization and tone.

How the Reading Section Is Built · Reading the Passage the First Time · Main Idea · Main Idea Traps: Too Small, Too Big, Beside The Point · +14 more

One prompt, 30 minutes, two lined pages in pen. Nobody at ERB scores it, every school you applied to reads it, and your family never sees it.

What the Essay Is and Who Reads It · The First Five Minutes · Making a Plan Before You Write · A Beginning, a Middle and an End · +6 more

Thirty-eight word problems in thirty-five minutes, with no quantitative comparisons at this level, where a wrong answer means you thought about it wrongly.

The Two Math Sections and How They Differ · Rule Generation: Find the Rule, Then Use It · Information You Were Given but Do Not Need · Choosing the Operation a Story Needs · +14 more

Thirty school-maths questions in thirty minutes across six strands, where a wrong answer means you worked it out wrongly, not thought about it wrongly.

Place Value and Reading Large Numbers · The Four Operations with Whole Numbers · Rounding and Making a Reasonable Estimate · Order of Operations · +40 more