Cracking the SSAT & ISEE, 2014 Edition

by The Princeton Review and The Princeton Review

Book Overview

The experts at The Princeton Review offer the most complete and effective preparation for the SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) and ISEE (Independent School Entrance Examination). This updated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307946177
• ISBN13: 9780307946171
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

ISEE materials are hard to find

Not many companies publish practice books for the ISEE. When tutoring ISEE students in Connecticut, whether Westport, Weston, New Canaan, Wilton, or any of the surrounding towns, this is one of the books I sometimes use. It isn't perfect, but given the relative lack of available material it's certainly worth a few dollars. I also use it with SSAT tutoring students.

ISEE preparation, best available

This book is the best organized and most comprehensive available. However, it still is lacking. I've been tutoring this test for 5 years, and it is especially hard to differentiate the middle level and upper level exams. You can tell PR struggles with this differentiation as well. Math - By far its most useful section. PR does a good job of covering all of the concepts you will need to know, as well as providing some solid "ISEE-like" questions. The book doesn't have many difficult questions for students aiming for the 90th+ percentile, and is limited in quantitative comparisons. Synonyms - Just study vocabulary (the PR list is a good place to start), and use PR questions for practice. I personally think PR over-sells strategies such as positive/negative. Sentence Completions - Decent strategies, decent practice...if you need more questions and your taking the middle or upper level ISEE, buy an SAT book from College Board and use the SCs. You can also use some of the math questions. Passage-based reading - Horrible! Practice tests - Good practice.

very good prep book

this book is one of the best ssat prep books i have ever used. i took a practice ssat without any previous preparation and i did fairly well, but not well enough to get into my choice high schools. after i used this book and took the ssat for real, it raised by score into the 99th percentile. i have not received my high school letters yet, but i am almost 100 percent sure that i made it into my favorite high school.

Very good

Good book. Very helpful

Good test review and beyond!

I bought this book to help my son get ready for the SSAT which he took last month. It was clearly superior to the others available at my local bookstore, some of which had not been updated to reflect that the test has included an essay for nearly two years now.The tone was lighthearted and made him actually enjoy the math review. There is an excellent vocabulary section at the beginning of the book and I've seen him continue to develop and use the vocabulary skills he learned during his work with the book.I have recommended it to friends.