Need focused SSAT advice for verbal disaster

dramakid2
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 03:13:52 +0000

I don’t have any useful test prep advice, I’m just chiming in to say that your daughters scores are similar to the scores my son had 2 years ago. He struggled on the verbal section since his vocabulary was weak. It dragged down his overall score and we did not discover any good strategy. He’s a smart kid, and we spent thousands on K-8 private school, so the results were shocking to us.

In the end, his scores did not keep him out of the schools he wanted to attend. He applied to 3 schools, was admitted to his top 2 choices, and is thriving at Mercersburg. Our school list did not include any ‘acronym’ schools that are constantly mentioned on CC. We focused on hidden gems - great schools with higher admission rates and strong academics. It’s not too late to do Skype interviews and add other schools you mentioned on a previous thread. Many hidden gems take students with a wide variety of scores. My son’s performance in school far outweighs his mediocre scores. They are only one measure.