Best SSAT preparation

Periwinkle
Thu, 08 May 2008 08:54:06 +0000

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I feel that at this point, the best approach is to identify weak spots in your child’s capabilities, and remediate that. For example, if she’s a math brain, but has never encountered analogies, concentrate on analogies.

Much of the work for preparing for the tests has been completed already, in her years at school. Reading books, and magazine and newspaper articles can only help. I think it would help to ask her to read a newspaper article each day, and to discuss it. Sometimes kids don’t understand all you’d think they should.

Also, if she does surprisingly badly on the first test, consider that she may have made a test-taking error, such as losing track of the correspondence between the test booklet and the answer sheet. I feel it’s impossible for a kid to score in the 90’s by mistake, but it’s quite possible to score much lower by mistake.