ISEE Reading Comprehension prep
Know where your child stands in ISEE Reading Comprehension. Then move up, one step at a time.
The first round finds a starting Level in ten questions. Each Level has a published gate, so you always know what is left before the next one.
Series pass $14.99/month for the whole family · the first round and its summary are free, no card needed
Next official date
Date to be announced
Levels covered
ISEE Primary 2 — Reading
Grade 1
For children applying to grade 2. Very short stories and passages about animals, nature and everyday life, sentences that test word meaning, and listening passages read aloud (auditory comprehension). 18 reading questions in 20 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Primary 2 covers →ISEE Primary 3 — Reading
Grade 2
For children applying to grade 3. Short stories and information passages, with questions on the main idea, details, inference and word meaning. 24 questions in 28 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Primary 3 covers →ISEE Primary 4 — Reading
Grade 3
For children applying to grade 4. Stories and information passages about science, history and people, with questions on the main idea, details, inference, word meaning and the author's purpose. 28 questions in 30 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Primary 4 covers →ISEE Lower Level — Reading Comprehension
Grades 4–5
For students applying to grades 5–6. Short passages about science, history, nature and everyday life, with questions on main idea, details, inference, vocabulary and the author's purpose. 25 questions in 25 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Lower Level covers →ISEE Middle Level — Reading Comprehension
Grades 6–7
For students applying to grades 7–8. Passages from science, history, the arts, biography and fiction, with questions on main idea, details, inference, vocabulary in context, and the author's purpose and organization. 36 questions in 35 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Middle Level covers →ISEE Upper Level — Reading Comprehension
Grades 8–11
For students applying to grades 9–12. Substantial passages from science, history, social science, the arts and literary fiction, with questions on main idea, details, inference, vocabulary in context, and the author's purpose, tone and organization. 36 questions in 35 minutes.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Upper Level covers →
A sample question from Primary 2
Read the passage, then answer the question. Frogs start life as eggs in a pond. The eggs hatch into tadpoles. Tadpoles have tails and swim like fish. Slowly they grow legs and lose their tails. Then they are frogs! What do tadpoles lose as they become frogs?
Answer: their tails
Worked solution
- Find what changes on the tadpole.
- It says 'Slowly they grow legs and lose their tails.'
- So they lose their tails.
Read-only. Every other question opens after sign-in; each child's first round is free.
Questions families ask
- What does Prep cover for ISEE Reading Comprehension?
- Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Lower Level, Middle Level, Upper Level. Each Level has its own chapter map, practice rounds, sealed practice exams with every answer and worked solution at the end, and a published gate to the next Level.
- When is the next ISEE Reading Comprehension date?
- The next official date has not been announced yet. We update the page as soon as the organizer publishes it.
- How much does it cost?
- Each child's first round and its summary are free, with no card needed. After that, a Series pass is $14.99 a month for the whole family (up to 5 people) and covers every Level of the Series, so moving up never meets a new paywall.
- Does Prep guarantee a score?
- No. Prep shows exactly what your child has mastered, what comes next and when they are ready for the next Level. Nobody can promise a contest result.