Strategy
Decide which passage will be easiest for you and do this passage first
Reading Section
Which of the following numbers is
divisible by 6?
(A) 356
(B) 358
(C) 360
(D) 362
(C) 360
PERSPIRE
(A) sweat
(B) breathe
(C) encourage
(D) inhale
(A) sweat
After years of collecting scraps of wood,
metal, and machinery, John’s garage is a
hopeless _________ of odds and ends.
(A) facade
(B) studio
(C) jumble
(D) clatter
(C) jumble
Which of the following numbers is closest to the square root of 130?
(A) s
(B) 6
(c) 10
(D) 11
(D) 11
Sometimes you don't have to do the whole problem
Math Section
If 40 percent of a number is 200, then 10
percent of the same number is
(A) 10
(B) 20
(C) 50
(D) 190
(C) 50
HARMONIOUSLY
(A) aggressively
(B) slowly
(C) cooperatively
(D) strikingly
(C) cooperatively
Dean loved his old car, but had to admit
that it was too small to be a _________
family vehicle.
(A) peculiar
(B) sensational
(C) wasteful
(D) practical
(D) practical
A set of 6 numbers had a mean of 8. One number was removed and the mean of the remaining numbers was 7. What number was removed?
(A) 7
(B) 13
(c) 35
(D) 48
(B) 13
Read the questions first and code them as specific or general
Reading Section
A safari company offers group tours that
cost $100 for two people and $20 more
for each additional person. If five people
share the cost of the tour equally, how
much does each person pay?
(A) $20.00
(B) $24.00
(C) $32.00
(D) $40.00
(C) 32.00
WORLDLINESS
(A) orderliness
(B) richness
(C) miseducation
(D) sophistication
(D) sophistication
Sea turtles are _________ aquatic, usually
coming onto land only to lay eggs.
(A) furtively
(B) rarely
(C) predominantly
(D) exclusively
(C) predominantly
If 5w + 3 = 12, then what is l5w + 9 equal to?
(A) 3
(B) 4
(c) 36
(D) 60
(C) 36
Look for parts of the word you know
Synonyms
There were 17 sunny days this year,
which was 18 fewer than last year. Two
years ago, there were three times as many
sunny days as there were this year. How
many total sunny days were there in all
three years?
(A) 35
(B) 51
(C) 103
(D) 104
(C) 103
BUFFOON
(A) fool
(B) pillow
(C) shrew
(D) vault
(A) fool
The captive tiger _________ to be free and
spent most of its time looking for some
way to escape its cage.
(A) hated
(B) compelled
(C) yearned
(D) taught
(C) yearnd
A population of 64 bats increased by l50o/o. What was the total number of bats after
the increase?
(A) 72
(B) 96
(c) 128
(D) 160
(D) 160
You should use this strategy for every question on the ISEE
Elimination
If two times x is greater than 7, then
which of the following numbers could
NOT be a value of x?
(A) 3 1/2
(B) 3 3/4
(C) 4
(D) 4 1/2
(A) 3 1/2
ATROCIOUS
(A) perceptive
(B) massive
(C) appalling
(D) indignant
(C) appalling
In _________ of the coming tourist season,
Percy stocked his shop’s shelves with
souvenirs and trinkets of the sort that
tourists generally buy.
(A) anticipation
(B) regulation
(C) peril
(D) consternation
(A) anticipation
A shirt originally cost $15.
Column A
The price of the shirt after a 20o/o
discount
Column B
The price of the shirt after two
separate 10% discounts
Column B