SSAT Practice Tests: Lower Level

This book would be fine — were it titled correctly. There is no "lower level" SSAT — there is a high school level, a middle school level, and an elementary school level.This book advertises itself as being for "elementary and middle school students", but it doesn't explain that the tests inside are designed to emulate the middle-school level test.I gave a practice test, from this book, to a fourth-grader looking to practice their fifth-grade SSAT. That is, I gave her the wrong test — because this book was mislabeled.Very, very frustrating.

Great challenging practice tests!My only gripe is that the vocabulary on these four tests are unnecessarily difficult for lower level. The actual test had easier words. Wished students had more exposure to words that will appear on the test- 4-5th grade vocab. Good books typically have words and problems that look similar to the actual test. Unless I am done using all the lower level practice books, I don't think I'll use this book for lower level prep. Even without knowing a lot of vocab on this book (used wordlywise level 4-6), received a perfect score on verbal section of the test.Critical reading section has a similar problem. Passages are not similar in level of difficulty. Plus the passages weren't very stimulating.

The tests were at about the same level that you could expect on the actually SSAT. The explanations to the answers in the back of the book were easy enough for my 8yr old 3rd grader to understand. I bought just about every SSAT book on Amazon and this was in my top three of usefulness!!

The test questions and explanations are of good quality, but there is no table for converting raw scores to scaled scores. Without that information, you really can't tell how well you've done or if you're prepared for the real thing.

pretty good...