ISEE & SSAT Prep

ivyGoal caters to each individual student’s goal with a feasible plan.  We provide our honest opinions and turn plans into reality. Each year, many parents turn to ivyGoal for private school application support. We have a long history of helping students to be accepted by top private schools: Harker, Menlo School, Castilleja, Crystal Spring, Nueva, Sacred Heart at Atherton, Pinewood...

 What Made ivyGoal's ISEE & SSAT So Special?

 We Focus On Verbal Skills Development

• Through our intensive training, students can easily master 2,000 challenging vocabularies required by both tests. 
• In addition to unlimited mock tests, we offer a progressive learning program so that students can steadily improve.  
• We offer FREE & UNLIMITED online assessments and practices.

 Free & Unlimted Verb Practices With 2,000 ISEE & SSAT Vocabulary Synonym and Filling The Blanks Exercises. 

• ISEE / SSAT Verbal  (join code: CE4JLJ)
• If you do not have a Canvas account with ivyGoal,
  • please create a free Canvas account: https://canvas.instructure.com/register
  • Use the join code after the test title.
• If you already have a Canvas account with ivyGoal, please simply click on the course title.

 Lesson Plan

Teachers: Nick Ni and ivyGoal's highly regarded test prep teachers in the bay area and have taught thousands of students.

Homework: Students are expected to complete 1-3 hours of homework per week in order to successfully complete the course. 

Lesson Instruction: students will log into ivyGoal’s Zoom online classroom and study with us by following ivyGoal’s rigorous program. 

Registration: students need to register the class on a monthly base. After each month, parents can decide if you want your child to continue. The class will end in January, which is time for the last ISEE / SSAT test. 

Vocabulary Skills Covered:

• Synonym.
• Filling the blank. 
• Connotation.
• Parts of speech.
• Roots. 
• Process of elimination. 

Vocabulary Words Samples:

• albeit, granted (that), nonetheless, notwithstanding, lest, conversely, thereupon, thus, 
• detain, perceive, revitalize, cohesive, futile, convex, repulsive, assemble, compel, literal
• tangible, abhor, dejection, illiteracy, compassion, alleviate, sleek, remorse, prolific, climax
• meticulous, voyage, trajectory, akin to, slated to, sinister, ponder, cluster, ponder, multifacet, 
• detrimental, impair, introspection, preordained, pertinent, undermine, tribute, induce, deduce, 
• discern, deleterious, context, phantom, pilgrim, behold, referent, susceptible, indifference, 
• reprimand, altruism, eminent, extrovert, pensive, persevere, plausible, cynicism, intrinsic, 
• ardent, eminent, adhere, encompass, refute, reign, ransack, poised, condone, elusive, contrive, 
• ...

Reading Skills Covered:

• Deploying different reading skills for different types of reading passages.
• What to read and what to skip or skim. 
• How to identify the main idea.
• How to decipher an author's purpose. 
• How to perform deductive reasoning. 
• How to apply grammar skills to improve reading comprehension.
• How to become an active reader vs a passive reader. 

Mock tests:

• 10 mock tests will be assigned to students to practice and to be reviewed in class.