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TheISEE.

Private School Admissions · Lower, Middle, Upper

Free · We map the timeline and the target schools

TheISEE,mapped.

The ISEE decides admissions files at private schools across the country, and it tests material most students have not seen in class: quantitative comparisons, sentence completions, and vocabulary well above grade level. We mapped what each level actually asks, from Lower through Upper, so prep fits the student and the deadline.

Ways to prepare

Students working through practice questions together.

DiagnosticFree

The admissions consultation

One sitting, real questions, timed like test day. You leave with the score-gap map. Free.

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1-on-1

1-on-1 tutoring

Flexible private sessions at $200 an hour, each one aimed at the patterns the diagnostic flagged.

$200 per hour

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Private tutoring

Named tutoring plans

Point, Line, Shape, Field turn related patterns into a defined teaching arc. Point starts at $1,000 total.

5 hours to start

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Schools

For schools

The same question bank and cohort dashboard, run by your teachers or ours.

Cohort programs

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Above grade level.

Whatshowsup.

These are not guesses. Each one appears on the ISEE again and again, and each one is teachable in a session or two.

Quantitative comparisons
A question format that exists almost nowhere else in school. Students who practice it stop losing easy points to it.
Sentence completions
Vocabulary in context, where the sentence itself tells you the answer if you know how to read it.
Synonyms above grade level
The verbal section draws on words most students meet here for the first time. The list is finite.
Reading the long way down
Passages longer and denser than classwork, with questions that reward method over rereading.

ISEE at a glance

Format: Verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, reading comprehension, and mathematics achievement, plus an unscored essay.
Levels: Lower, Middle, and Upper levels cover applicants to grades 5 through 12.
Dates: Offered year-round in three testing seasons. A student may test once per season.