SSAT Verbal prep
Know where your child stands in SSAT Verbal. 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
SSAT Elementary Level — Verbal
Grades 3–4
For students now in grades 3–4. Synonyms and analogies built on third- and fourth-grade words from science, technology and social studies: pick the word closest in meaning, and finish a word pair that works the same way. 30 questions in 20 minutes, five choices, no penalty for wrong answers.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Elementary Level covers →SSAT Middle Level — Verbal
Grades 5–7
For students now in grades 5–7. The verbal section of the Middle Level SSAT: 30 synonyms — core words, words solved through their roots, and words used in a second meaning — and 30 analogies on opposites and degree, parts and kinds, tools and workers, places and causes. 60 questions in 30 minutes, five choices; a quarter point is taken off for each wrong answer.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Middle Level covers →SSAT Upper Level — Verbal
Grades 8–11
For students now in grades 8–11. The verbal section of the Upper Level SSAT: 30 synonyms — advanced vocabulary, Latin and Greek roots, and words used in a second meaning — and 30 analogies on opposites and lack, degree and defining qualities, parts and kinds, function and makers, causes and sequences. 60 questions in 30 minutes, five choices; a quarter point is taken off for each wrong answer.
Next official date: Date to be announced
What Upper Level covers →
A sample question from Elementary Level
Horse is to stable as fish is to
Answer: pond
Worked solution
- Relationship: A horse lives in a stable; a fish lives in a pond.
- Check the answer in the same sentence: pond fits.
- The others fail: gill a part of a fish; swim what a fish does; saddle gear for a horse; grass its food.
Read-only. Every other question opens after sign-in; each child's first round is free.
Questions families ask
- What does Prep cover for SSAT Verbal?
- Elementary 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 SSAT Verbal 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.