ISEE®

The ISEE®, also known as the Independent School Entrance Exam, is used for admission to private middle and high schools around the country. The exam has four main levels: Primary (for students entering Grades 2 through 4), Lower (for students entering Grades 5 and 6), Middle (for students entering Grades 7 and 8), and Upper (for students entering Grades 9 through 12). Pegasus Test Prep currently offers tutoring for the Lower, Middle, and Upper levels.

Each examination assesses a student's overall verbal and mathematics skills, as well as his or her ability to write an open-ended essay. Although the levels cover multiple grades, each student's test performance is compared only to the performance of other students at his or her grade level. A rising 9th grader, therefore, is scored on a different scale from a rising 12th grader taking the same level exam. Additional information on the ISEE® can be found here.

Upper level

1. Verbal Reasoning (20 min.)

• Synonyms
• Sentence Completions

2. Quantitative Reasoning (35 min.)

• Word Problems
• Logical Reasoning
• Pattern Recognition

3. Reading comprehension (35 min.)

• Narrative, Informative, and Persuasive Passages
• Main Idea, Summary, Close Reading, Use of Text Evidence

4. Mathematics achievement (40 min.)

• Traditional Multiple-Choice Math Problems
• Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, Probability, Pre-Calculus

5. Essay (30 min.)
 

Total Time - 2 hours 40 minutes

Middle Level

1. Verbal Reasoning (20 min.)

• Synonyms
• One- and Two-Blank Sentence Completions

2. Quantitative Reasoning (35 min.)

• Word Problems
• Logical Reasoning
• Pattern Recognition

3. Reading comprehension (35 min.)

• Narrative, Informative, and Persuasive Passages
• Main Idea, Summary, Close Reading, Use of Text Evidence 

4. Mathematics achievement (40 min.)

• Traditional Multiple-Choice Math Problems
• Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, Probability

5. Essay (30 min.)
 

Total Time - 2 hours 40 minutes