About

The Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT) is designed to test students' reading comprehension, mathematics, and language skills with five different sections:

Writing Sample
The Writing Sample is an 25-minute argumentative essay. Students must must choose to support or refute the given topic statement using specific examples from personal experience, current events, history, or literature. This section is not scored and is not returned to students in the score report, but it will be sent to the schools to which students are applying.

Quantitative (Math)
The Quatitative (Math) section consists of two sections of 25 multiple-choice questions each. Each of the two sections is 30 minutes.

Verbal
The 30-minute long Verbal section consists of 30 synonym and 30 analogy questions.

Reading Comprehension
The 40-minute long Reading Comprehension section consists of 40 questions based on about seven passages.

All of the questions are multiple-choice with five answer choices, (A) through (E).

The SSAT score report includes scaled scores for the Verbal, Math, and Reading Comprehension sections on a scale of 500-800 per section and 1500-2400 in total for the upper-level test or 440-710 per section and 1320-2130 for the lower-level test. The SSAT score report also includes percentile ranks for each section by comparing your own score to those of others who have taken the SSAT over the past three years.

The SSAT has two tests administered on two levels:
• Lower Level (for students currently in grades 5-7)
• Upper Level (for students currently in grades 8-11)

For more information regarding the SSAT, visit the SSAT website: http://www.ssat.org (The SSAT is not associated with the College Board.)