SSAT Upper LEVEL

Prep School Admissions
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Hi! I’m a rising 8th grader, and I am to take my SSAT Upper Level tomorrow.

I’ve been preparing for the past month-and-half or so, and I’ve been using Test Innovators. I’ve done a bunch of practice tests and exercises, and my overall percentile has steadily grown from the low nineties to the high nineties. I am a public school kid and will definitely need FA when I apply to GLADCHEMMS and a few others. I have been scoring 99th percentile on the last few practice tests I’ve been taking, with my weakest subjects usually being math or verbal. I’m not sure how the practice tests will compare to the real tests, so if anyone has taken the SSAT Upper Level, could you give me some brief insight on whether the exam is harder or easier than the practice tests.

Thank you so much!!

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I personally found the actual test to be harder than the practice.

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Oh! Thank you! I’m really scared lol

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You’re really early. You can always take it again.

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Yeah!! That’s definitely an option. But based on how I do, I’ll probably have to talk with my parents on whether I’d be better off taking a paper test. I’m doing Prometric tomorrow. And I’m not really the best test taker, so I really hope I can score well my first time about! Thank you though!

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Good Luck!

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Thank you so much! Hoping for the best!

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My kids found it helpful to schedule a second test right before tests were due. They both had substantial jumps.

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Thanks for that suggestion! I just got back my results and scored extremely well so I’m super happy. I think I’m not going to take it again, though.

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Congratulations!

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Thanks so much!

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Congratulations. Can you please suggest which practice tests that you took. And if the final test is similar or harder than the practice ones.

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SSAT has quite a good testing option that can be purchased through the registration site. It will allow you to practice on weak areas and has reliable full tests. The actual scoring varies by those you test with so schedule two tests.

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hey! so I bought the test innovators package. It gave me 9 practice tests, and a ton of questions. Personally, the real test was a LOT harder for me, but I think my strong math section helped me score in late 2300s.

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