Find your students current level and procedures associated with the ISEE test. There are currently three different ISEE levels. Lower level covers grades four and five, whereas middle level tests are grades six and seven. High level testing is for grades eight and above. Students take the ISEE test prior to advancement to the next grade level. Testing centers will usually be provided by your school, but testing centers are located throughout the United States.
Become familiar with the contents of the ISEE test. There are five sections to the ISEE test. Verbal and quantitative reasoning will test your student on both vocabulary and mathematical reasoning skills and concepts. There are forty verbal reasoning skills questions that a student is allowed twenty minutes to complete. Thirty-five minutes is given to students to answer thirty-five questions on the quantitative portion of the test. Reading comprehension will involve reading short passages of both fiction and non-fiction text after which students will answer a series of related questions. They might be asked to use deductive reasoning and inference to answer some questions. The mathematics portion of the test is an additional forty-five questions and students are allowed forty minutes in which to answer. They are also asked to complete an essay that is sent to their chosen school. They are given thirty minutes to finish the essay portion of the ISEE. Essay portions of the test are sent to the chosen school for review, but are not formally scored.
The ISEE score report will contain an analysis of the four gradable sections of the test. The essay portion of the test does not receive a grade. The analysis section will give you a summary of your childs performance on the ISEE and the test profile will compare your child's scores to other students in the same grade level over a three year time span. Your child will be scored on a Stanine scale that measures their percentile rank from 1 to 99 in comparison to other test takers. The Stanine scale goes from 1 to 9. A below average score is from 1 to 3, average is 4 to 6 and a 7 to 9 is considered above average.