SSAT® Middle Level
The SSAT for grades 5 through 7 — two quantitative sections, synonyms and analogies, reading, and the writing sample.
11 units · 119 topics · 620 questions
Thirty synonyms in half a verbal section: predict your own word, split two near-misses by feel, read word parts, and survive the quarter-point penalty.
Anatomy of an SSAT Synonym Question · Predicting Your Own Synonym First · Connotation: Warm Words and Cold Words · Intensity: How Strong a Word Is · +11 more
The SSAT's signature format, built on E3n's bridge sentence, with a topic for each of the ten official relationships from opposites to homonyms.
Anatomy of an SSAT Analogy · The Bridge Sentence Method · Relationship: Opposites · Relationship: Synonyms · +13 more
Forty questions in forty minutes on narrative and argument passages, worked against all eight official reading tasks, poems included.
Narrative Passages and Argument Passages · Building an Outline as You Read · Recognising the Main Idea · Locating Details · +10 more
Twenty-five minutes, unscored by E3n and read by every school you apply to: the Middle Level story starter, the personal essay, and how to plan either one.
What the Writing Sample Is and Where It Goes · Choosing Between the Story Starter and the Essay · The Creative Story Starter · The Personal Essay Prompt · +5 more
How the two 25-question sections combine into one score, why four wrong answers erase a right one, and the moves that beat the five-choice format.
Two Quantitative Sections, One Combined Score · The Two Score-Report Subject Areas · The Guessing Penalty: Plus One, Minus a Quarter · Educated Guessing: Eliminating Two of Five · +6 more
Place value, the four operations, factors and primes — the number properties that power every quick elimination on the quantitative sections.
Place Value and How Numbers Are Written · The Four Operations and What Each One Undoes · Order of Operations · Factors, Multiples, Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple · +3 more
Fractions as partitioned bars, decimals, percent as a hundred-square filling, plus negative numbers and absolute value as distance from zero.
Fractions as Parts of a Whole · Equivalent Fractions and Lowest Terms · Comparing and Ordering Fractions · Adding and Subtracting Fractions · +7 more
Ratios as a divided bar, proportions, rates, averages, and the rounding that replaces the calculator you are not allowed to bring.
Ratios as a Divided Bar · Proportions and Scaling · Rates, Unit Rates and Speed · Arithmetic Word Problems · +2 more
Variables, equations, inequalities, exponents cancelling factor by factor, patterns, sequences, and the logic and flowcharts E3n names in its own subscore.
What a Variable Stands For · Writing Expressions from Words · Solving Equations Step by Step · Inequalities and the Flip · +7 more
Angles, parallel lines, triangles and the Pythagorean theorem, plus perimeter, area, circles, volume, surface area and the units that belong to each.
Angles, Lines and How They Are Measured · Parallel and Perpendicular Lines · Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal · Triangle Angle Sum · +7 more
Tables, bar and line and circle graphs, frequency tables built from tallies, mean and median, trends and inferences, and probability as a branching tree.
Reading Tables · Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs · Line Graphs and Circle Graphs · Frequency Tables and Tally Marks · +4 more
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