🏫SSAT® Upper Level

The 30 synonym questions, the roots that crack an unfamiliar word, and the plus-one minus-a-quarter scoring rule that governs every section of the test.

The Guessing Penalty: One Point Right, a Quarter Point Wrong · Expected Value: When an Educated Guess Pays · Predicting Your Own Synonym First · Connotation: Splitting Two Choices That Both Fit · +12 more

The 30 analogy questions and the bridge sentence that solves them, with one topic for each of the ten official relationship types.

Relationship, Not Subject Matter · Building a Bridge Sentence · Testing Every Choice Against the Bridge · When a Vague Bridge Leaves Three Choices Standing · +14 more

Forty questions in forty minutes on narrative and argument passages, built around the eight reading tasks the test maker publishes.

Telling a Narrative Passage from an Argument Passage · Building an Outline as You Read · Task: Recognize the Main Idea · Main Idea Answers That Are Too Narrow or Too Broad · +11 more

Two essay prompts, one personal and one general, 25 minutes, two pages, no score from the test maker and a copy to every school on your list.

Unscored by the Test Maker, Read by Every School · Choosing Between the Personal and the General Prompt · Planning Inside 25 Minutes · Thesis and Structure: A Spine With Ribs · +3 more

Two 25-question sections scored as one 50-question total, the quarter-point penalty, back-solving, picking numbers, and doing all of it with no calculator.

Two Math Sections, One Quantitative Score · The Quarter-Point Guessing Penalty · Eliminating Two Choices with Math Facts · Back-Solving from the Five Answer Choices · +3 more

The first score-report subject area: the four operations, signed numbers, factors, fractions, decimals, rational numbers and estimation with no calculator.

The Four Operations and Order of Operations · Negative Numbers and Signed Arithmetic · Factors, Multiples, Primes, GCF and LCM · Operations with Fractions · +3 more

The topic E3n names first: arithmetic word problems, including every flavour of percent, ratio, proportion and rate the Upper Level test asks about.

Percent and the Percent Equation · Percent Change, Discount and Tax · Ratios and Proportions · Rates, Unit Rates and Distance-Rate-Time · +1 more

Variables in equations and inequalities, the exponent rules, absolute value and the algebraic word problems E3n lists under Algebra, Geometry and Other Math.

Variables, Expressions and Substitution · Like Terms and the Distributive Property · Solving Linear Equations in One Variable · Inequalities and When the Sign Flips · +5 more

Sequences and series, patterns, repeating cycles, and the logic and flowcharts E3n names in its own description of the Algebra and Other Math sub-score.

Patterns and Finding the Rule · Arithmetic Sequences · Geometric Sequences and Series · Repeating Cycles and Remainders · +1 more

The two topics E3n tests at Upper Level and not at Middle Level: the coordinate plane, slope every way it is asked, and the equations of lines.

The Coordinate Plane and Plotting Points · Quadrants, Axes and Signs · Slope as Rise over Run · Slope from Two Points · +6 more

Parallel and perpendicular lines, the Pythagorean theorem, and the right, isosceles and equilateral triangle properties E3n names by name.

Angles, Complements, Supplements and Vertical Angles · Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal · Perpendicular Lines and Right Angles · Triangle Angle Sum and Exterior Angles · +5 more

Area and perimeter of a polygon, area and circumference of a circle, and the volume of a cube, a box and a cylinder, all with no calculator.

Perimeter of a Polygon · Area of Rectangles, Squares and Parallelograms · Area of Triangles and Trapezoids · Interior and Exterior Angles of Polygons · +6 more

Frequencies, interpretation of tables and graphs, trends and inferences, and the simple probability and statistics E3n lists in the same sub-score.

Interpretation of Tables · Bar Graphs and Line Graphs · Circle Graphs and Percent of a Whole · Frequencies and Frequency Tables · +5 more