Two keys to top US private schools — SSAT opens New England’s century-old boarding schools; ISEE is the ticket to Bay Area elite day schools. We hold to “choose the exam by school, the path by student,” selecting by target-school region and the student’s stronger subjects.
Split into Elementary / Middle / Upper (out of 1800 / 2130 / 2400). Literary difficulty is SSAT reading’s hardest hurdle; wrong answers are penalized, so answering strategically matters. The path to New England boarding schools like Andover and Exeter.
Split into Primary / Lower / Middle / Upper. Fast location is the key to a high ISEE reading score. The path to Bay Area day schools like Harker, Castilleja and Head-Royce. A Stanine ≥ 7 in each section is most competitive.
Synonyms + 17 analogy relations + roots and affixes + a core word list — turning rote vocabulary into usable power on real questions.
Strategy by passage genre; SSAT tackles the literary, ISEE trains the high-scoring “fast location.”
Dedicated Quantitative Reasoning and Math Achievement, with a full ISEE formula set and high-frequency points.
Essay and creative-writing frameworks, from model-essay walk-throughs to transferable structure.
FAVAN’s in-house ISEE Upper / Middle Verbal Reasoning handouts, built around a real-question bank, break vocabulary, reading, math and writing into a trainable system.
SSAT leans East-Coast boarding, ISEE leans California day schools; fix the target school first, then choose which to take.
When SSAT scores stall in November–December, switching to ISEE can turn things around at the decisive moment — not a fallback, but a smarter strategic call.
Outcomes and cases are FAVAN’s de-identified historical statistics: sustained output in the 99% / 98% bands, with many section full-scores in reading · math · vocabulary. Verified against reproducible methodology before public release.
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