First, the SSAT exam.
Application: Apply for top junior high schools and high schools in the United States.
The full name of SSAT is (Middle School Entrance Examination), which is a middle school entrance examination in the United States, equivalent to the senior high school entrance examination in China.
SSAT was founded in 1957 with a history of 50 years. It was put forward by SSATB, a middle school entrance examination committee in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, and operated and supervised SSAT for about 60,000 students in nearly 76 countries. Over the years, it is guaranteed that no candidate will take the same test paper repeatedly.
American high schools that accept SSAT admission scores include excellent private schools in the United States, Canada and around the world. About 300 private secondary schools around the world must require that the SSAT score report be listed as one of the important documents for admission application. Because the school trusts the detailed evaluation results of SSAT, SSAT will compare your performance with other very competitive global student groups, so SSAT is a very important reference for the school when you apply for admission.
SSAT is mainly composed of reading, Chinese, mathematics and writing. The exam provides two levels of tests: the lower grades (candidates studying in grades 5-7 in the United States, equivalent to students studying in grades 5-1 in China) and the upper grades (candidates studying in grades 8- 1 1 in the United States, equivalent to students studying in grades 2-2 in China). The total score of each part of the lower grade exam is 7 10 and 2130; Each part of the advanced exam is 800 points, with a total score of 2400 points. The composition part is not graded, but it is one of the important references for the school to choose students. The whole examination time is about 180 minutes. It is held every year in 1 1, 12, 1, March and April, with a validity period of 2 years.
The test items are generally reading, Chinese, mathematics and writing, with a full score of 2400. Generally, applying for American high schools requires 1900-2 100.
Second, the TOEFL test
Application: Apply for grades 5-9 in the United States.
Small TOEFL
The elementary examination is the newest member of the TOEFL family of ETS. 20 10 Korea, Brazil and Vietnam first introduced TOEFL.
More than 30 countries took the primary examination. Junior TOEFL test 20 1 1 officially landed in China on September 28th.
Third, the TOEFL test
Applicable to all grades (especially 10- 12 grade applicants, it is recommended to take the TOEFL).
TOEFL is not only a language certificate for international students to apply for American universities, but also one of the language qualifications of American high schools. The new TOEFL test is the most widely used English appraisal test, which is used by more than 4,500 institutions in more than 65,438+080 countries around the world. The new TOEFL test is a comprehensive test of English ability, which requires candidates to have the ability to integrate listening, speaking, reading and writing, learn to communicate in English in all directions, and no longer start with difficult words or boring grammatical structures, but lack the application ability in daily life, workplace and academic communication. Many American universities spoke highly of the new TOEFL test method.
The test items are reading, listening, speaking and writing, with a full score of 120. The requirements of American excellent high schools are generally 80- 1 10.
Fourth, the SAT test.
Applicability: Apply for some high schools 1 1 and 12, especially the very good American high schools.
SAT is the abbreviation of English Scholastic Assessment Test, which can be translated into learning ability assessment test. By the Education Testing Service (Education
test
Service (ETS) can be approximately understood as American College Entrance Examination. 20 17, 8 exams. In fact, this is a big gift for senior one students now, because there is an additional SAT test on 20 17. Starting from 20 18, the SAT exam in June 1 will be cancelled and replaced by the exam in August. It is worth noting that this time adjustment only involves SAT 1, and SAT2 is not affected.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) ISEE exam
ISEE exam time: there is an exam opportunity for each level every month.
ISEE is an independent school.
Exam is the abbreviation of entrance examination for independent schools. ISEE is operated by the Independent School Admissions Examination Office (ISEE)
Office) and education records.
Bureau), which mainly examines students' reasoning ability of words and numbers. Like the SSAT exam, the ISEE exam also has short essays, but the essays are not scored and will be sent to the school admissions department for admission reference. In order to take care of students who enter school at any time, ISEE has set up a three-level test: the primary test object is students in grades 5-6 who want to apply for admission in grades 6-7; Intermediate students in grades 7-8 want to apply for grades 8-9; High flyers is in Grade 9-1 1, and wants to apply for Grade 10- 12.
Many famous private schools require applicants to take the entrance examination of SSAT or ISEE, and the score of SSAT or ISEE directly determines whether an applicant can be admitted to the applied middle school. Only by successfully passing the exam can you enter a famous private middle school. ISEE, you can only take the exam once every six months. There is no test center in China, so you must take it in the United States. Therefore, if the school entrance requirements must be SSAT or ISEE, almost all China students will choose SSAT. However, some top middle schools in the United States only accept ISEE scores. At this time, you need to go to the United States to take the exam.
Sixth, the ITEP exam.
20 17- 18 test time: online test at any time.
ITEP academic examination can evaluate all English skills, which is convenient for online testing and is a 90-minute efficient test. The admission school of this ITEP is relatively small, but its advantages are fast grading and convenient testing. The test is mainly composed of listening, language form and meaning, and reading, with 42 multiple-choice questions in each part; Listening for 35 minutes, language form and meaning for 25 minutes, reading for 50 minutes, *** 1 10 minutes.
Seven, SLEP
SLEP is a medium-level English profitability.
The abbreviation of Test, that is, middle school English proficiency test. The purpose of SLEP test is to examine non-native English speaking international students.
The speaker's English listening and reading comprehension ability. The examination paper is provided by the Educational Testing Service Center (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. SLEP test was established in 1980, and has a history of more than 20 years. SLEP test is an important basis for middle school English teachers to judge the English level of foreign students. More than 500 middle schools and community colleges in the United States use SLEP scores as a reference for the enrollment and placement of foreign students. Students who provide SLEP scores usually do not need students to provide TOEFL scores.
SLEP exam content:
SLEP is a standardized norm reference test, which consists of eight different types of multiple-choice questions. SLEP*** has three types of questions (Type 4, Type 5 and Type 6), all of which have been tested in American middle schools. The exam lasts 85 minutes and is divided into two parts:
Part I-Listening Test (74 questions, 40 minutes): The test questions are designed according to the common spoken English of American middle school students.
The second part-reading ability (7 1 question, 45 minutes): the questions cover grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension.
SLEP test score:
SLEP scores range from a minimum of 20 to a full score of 67. Parents don't have to worry that their children won't get full marks, because even international freshmen studying in American middle schools have an average score of only 43.
The test questions are generally reading and listening, with a full score of 67, and generally require 45-55 points.
It should be noted that many particularly good high schools in the United States have stopped accepting slep scores.