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What is the SSAT?

How The Princeton Review can help you beat the SSAT

Improve your score
The Princeton Review's Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) program is tailor-made for your PRIVATE SCHOOL admissions needs. Take the first step to score improvement by enrolling in one of our interactive programs or signing up for our personalized 1-2-1 tutoring. Here are some of the unique benefits you can take advantage of when you undertake your preparation for the SSAT with The Princeton Review:

Score Improvement
Why is The Princeton Review's SSAT Program the world's most popular? One major reason is the score improvements that our candidates get. The average is an incredible 150 points.

Small Groups
We know that people learn better in smaller groups. Moreover, it is our philosophy that a sense of community is a tremendous aid to the learning process. As a result, you will receive personalized attention from your trainer and are assured of great interaction with your fellow test takers as you all strive to master the SSAT!

Our Trainers
Princeton Review trainers are expert test takers and inspirational motivators. Your trainer will make sure you learn all the strategies you need by keeping you interested and involved.

Free State of the Art Materials
Why do so many other institutes use our materials? Because they are recognized as the best and most original SSAT material out there. As an SSAT candidate with The Princeton Review, you will have exclusive access to The Princeton Review's newest materials, which includes comprehensive manuals, workbooks to reinforce strategies, and over 1000 practice problems. In additional, we will administer three full-length diagnostic exams to track your improvement. With The Princeton Review you can be assured that what you study will be entirely up-to-date and relevant.

A Systematic Approach to the Test
The Princeton Review's strategies have been developed through 16 years of tracking SSAT administrations. Our strategies have proven to work!!!

Our Verbal Strategies
- vocabulary building techniques expose test takers to the words that appear most frequently on the SSAT
- strategies for analogies and sentence completion help test takers to work around words they don't know and work efficiently with
words they do
- critical reading techniques teach test takers to answer questions
quickly and accurately

Our Math Strategies
- math techniques start with a review of basic math skills, then teach test takers to minimize errors while working more efficiently