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SSAT
Course Overview
What is SSAT?
An admissions test required for entry to most independent and private elementary, middle, and high schools in the US.
Offered in three levels: Elementary Level (for students in grades 3 – 4), Middle Level (for students in grades 5 – 7), and Upper Level (for students in grades 8 – 11).
Comprises a Writing Sample and multiple-choice sections covering Verbal, Reading, and Quantitative (Mathematics) skills.
Only computer-based format available in Singapore.
Roughly 3 hours to complete (including short breaks in between sections).
ssat Test Format
The test consists of the following sections:
 
Section I: Writing
Organisation and expression of ideas
 
Section II: Quantitative
Problem solving using arithmetic, elementary algebra, geometry, and other concepts.
 
Section III: Reading Comprehension
Recognising central ideas, identifying details, inference and deduction, determining author’s purpose, attitude, and tone, understanding and evaluating arguments.
 
Section IV: Verbal
Vocabulary; identification of synonyms and interpretation of analogies.
Sections Questions Duration Scoring
Reading

1 task from a choice of 2 prompts

25 minutes

Unscored
Quantitative 1

25 multiple choice

30 minutes

500 - 800 (Upper Level)

440 - 710 (Middle Level)

Quantitative 1

25 multiple choice

30 minutes
Reading

40 multiple choice

40 minutes

500 - 800 (Upper Level)

440 - 710 (Middle Level)
Verbal

60 multiple choice

30 minutes

500 - 800 (Upper Level)

440 - 710 (Middle Level)
Experimental

16 multiple choice

15 minutes

Unscored
Total

 

3 hours 5 minutes

Including breaks

1500 - 2400 (Upper Level)

1320 - 2130 (MIddle Level)
Our ssat Courses
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1-to-1 Personal Coaching

 

Our SSAT Online Personal Coaching is for students who prefer one-on-one preparation with our highly qualified teachers. The SSAT Personal Coaching course is tailored to your unique learning needs, strengths and weaknesses to comprehensively cover each section of the test at your own pace. Your Personal Coaching sessions can be held remotely through online streaming platforms. Available in 10 to 50-hour coaching services, your coach will be with you all the way!

Our ssat Instructors
Tony
US College
Tony holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (First Class) in Global Studies from the National University of Singapore. His exemplary academic record has also secured him a PhD Fellowship at Purdue University’s Sociology Program as an alternate Singapore Fulbright candidate.
Linh
US College
Graduating with highest honours (Summa Cum Laude) in Anthropology from Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Linh is a scholastic powerhouse with a diverse academic background which spans the humanities to the quantitative sciences. A highly proficient test taker herself, Linh has obtained perfect scores in the ISAT, SAT Math and PTE. Additionally, she has scored in the 99th percentile for the SAT and UCAT, and the 96th percentile for the GRE.
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