Cracking the SSAT & ISEE, 2003 Edition
bElizabeth Silas/bis the Director of Research and Development for Princeton Review Publishing. She develops and edits books for students in Kindergarten through high school.brbrbReed Talada/bhas worked in various capacities with The Princeton Review for the past fourteen years in New Jersey, Boston, and New York City. He is currently Vice President of The Princeton Review, in charge of educational content development.The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SSAT and ISEE exams is very different from getting straight As in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English and mathonly what you’ll need to score higher on the exam.iThere’s a big difference/i. IniCracking the SSAT & ISEE/i, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers andbrbr·Solve analogy and synonym problems even when youre not sure what all the words meanbr·Ace the reading comprehension section by learning to spot main ideas, topic sentences, and key wordsbr·Crack the general math section by learning to avoid wrong answer choices that look correctbr·Solve math problems by learning to turn complicated algebra problems into simple word problemsbr·Simplify the SSAT writing sample and the ISEE essay using a sure-fire, step-by-step approachbrbbrbr/bThis book includes five full-length practice tests, with questions like the ones youll see on the actual SSAT and ISEE.brbrbriContents:br/ibrbPart I: The SSAT/bbrEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the SSATbrSSAT PacingbrSSAT MathbrSSAT VerbalbrAnswer Key to SSAT DrillsbrbPart II: SSAT Practice Tests/bbrUpper Level SSAT Practice TestbrLower Level SSAT Practice TestbrAnswer Key to SSAT Practice TestsbrScoring Your SSAT Practice TestsbrbPart III: The ISEE/bbrEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the ISEEbrISEE MathbrISEE VerbalbrAnswer Key to the ISEE Drillsbr@Aë…¸R ¾Ûâ¬