ISEE® Middle Level
The ISEE for students entering grades 7 and 8, quantitative comparisons included, one topic at a time.
5 units · 136 topics · 674 questions
Forty items in twenty minutes: synonyms drawn as territory on a meaning map, and sentences drawn as arrows a single signal word can reverse.
How the Verbal Reasoning Section Is Built · Predicting Your Own Synonym Before You Look · Why the Four Choices Sit in Alphabetical Order · Reading the Choices for Part of Speech · +18 more
Six passages of about 450 words in 35 minutes, and ERB's six strands as shapes: nested circles for scope, a dotted box for inference, a dial for tone.
How the Reading Section Is Built · The Six Strands Behind Every Question · Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, Descriptive · Arts, Contemporary Life, History and Science Texts · +22 more
Unscored by ERB, copied to every school, never shown to your family: thirty handwritten minutes built as a spine with ribs that all have to attach.
How the ISEE Essay Works · Copying the Prompt Into the Box · Reading a One-Sentence Prompt · Why Every Prompt Is Built to Be Answerable · +8 more
Thirty-seven items in thirty-five minutes where every wrong answer is a logical error, not a slip: word problems plus quantitative comparisons.
What Quantitative Reasoning Actually Measures · Logical Errors vs Process Errors · Sorting Out Irrelevant Information · Estimation and Mental Math Without a Calculator · +19 more
Forty-seven items in forty minutes across six NCTM strands for grades 6 to 8, where every wrong choice is a process error somebody actually makes.
Order of Operations · Place Value, Rounding and Estimation · The Four Operations and Their Properties · Primes, Factors, Multiples, GCF and LCM · +49 more
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