ETP's Essential Strategies for Success on the ISEE and SSAT: Middle Level

Test anxiety is a common experience. Even when you know the material, sitting down to take a test can make you feel like you don’t know anything at all. There’s a very simple reason for this—tests are written in their own unique language. Basically, you’re being asked to recall what you know in a language that is foreign to you. But what if you could break the code and finally approach tests with the same confidence you feel in the classroom?

This 35 page test-prep guide teaches you how to naturally acquire test language and offers easy-to-understand strategies that you can apply to any standardized test you have to tackle. So, while

ETP’s Essential Strategies for Success on the ISEE and SSAT is written particularly to help middle school students pass their exams for entrance into independent and private schools, its concepts are universally applicable.

Most test-taking manuals are filled with practice questions and skill drills, but this streamlined text focuses on teaching students how to test. This approach builds up test-taking confidence, thus reducing test anxiety, and gives tools to use on a wide variety of tests!

Lisa Kurstin is a trained botanist and science educator with twenty years of experience working in California independent schools as a classroom teacher, department chair, and senior-level administrator. She has taught subjects in both the sciences and humanities to students of all ages, from kindergarten through high school. Additionally, she has created testing materials that have been used internationally, served as an education programs manager at a Southern California botanic garden, and received the 2013 National Hull Award for Excellence in Education by the Garden Clubs of America.

James Westerholm has more than twenty years of experience of classroom instruction and private tutoring in standardized test preparation as well as all high school subjects. Researching the art of test taking throughout his career, he eventually uncovered a learnable "test language" and observed that regular exposure to the unique language of standardized tests resulted in better scores. Westerholm's findings developed into Educational Test Prep's wonderfully successful approach to test preparation.