My daughter is applying to three boarding schools for 9th grade and they all require the ISEE. We're planning to test in November, which gives us about 10 weeks. She's a strong student — mostly A's — but hasn't done any standardized test prep before. I'm trying to figure out if 10 weeks is enough or if we should push to an earlier test date and retest if needed.
Her weakest area is definitely the quantitative reasoning section. She freezes up on those "which value is greater" comparison questions. We've been using the ISEE MATH Practice Test to drill those concepts and it's helping, but slowly. The verbal sections seem more manageable for her. Anyone have a realistic sense of what a 10-week timeline looks like? Did you do daily practice or more of a weekend-heavy schedule? I'd love to hear what actually worked, not just generic study guide advice.
Also curious — is the Upper Level notably harder than the Middle Level, or is the jump less dramatic than people say?