The SSAT examination, which was co-founded by ten top private schools under the term “small potatoes”, has been introduced by thousands of private secondary schools in North America, the first threshold for low-age schools to leave the country. Because of its flexible examination time, high peculiarity and high global acceptance, China’s parents have accepted it as an internationalization examination to test the academic level of home-goers. What is the need for Chinese students to take care of in considering SSAT? How can we respond? How did the Foreign Beach interview Dr. Liu, Chief Test Research Officer of SSAT, and the General Manager of SSAT China, Zhang Xu, listen to suggestions that they would give to their parents?

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of “American high parties” applying for private secondary schools in the United States. In 2017, the proportion of pupils in primary and secondary schools as a whole increased from 25 per cent in 2016 to 30 per cent. The SSAT (Secondary School Admission) examination, commonly known as the United States Secondary School entrance examination, is also growing in China.

This examination, widely used by thousands of private schools in North America, with self-intellectual education, has not only become the first “threshold” for Chinese children to apply for private schools in the United States, but also because of the flexibility of their examinations, the internationalization of their origins, the difficulty of being highly expensive and increasingly recognized by their parents. Even in the absence of a school retention scheme, many parents have chosen to enrol their children in the SSAT examination and to test the results of everyday learning, which has become one of the trends in the development of international talent.

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SSAT, co-founded by 10 private schools in private United States secondary schools, known as “small potatoes”, selects excellent students for private schools. It has now become an entry examination for many high-quality private secondary schools in the United States and Canada.

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Under the United States education system, the SSAT examination is divided into three levels: the primary examination (for 3-4 years); the secondary examination (for 5-7 grades, i.e., 5 to 1 in the country); and the advanced examination (for grades 8 to 11, i.e., 2 to 2 in the country). At present, the highest participation of domestic students is in advanced examinations.

There are four main modules of the examination

The SSAT examination is divided into four major modules: glossary, mathematics, reading, writing. In this case, writing is not included in the gross score but is sent to the requested school as a reference. As a selection examination for private schools, SSAT focuses in particular on the innovative thinking and resolution capacity of students, which is internationally recognized in terms of difficulty and amount.

As a result of the Shanghai Cay in SSAT, an old international school, the Shanghai Bridge International School, became one of the first members of the SSAT China Board, the Future EEMA (The Enrollment Management Association American Council of Private Schools) will work with more Chinese quality schools to form the SSAT China School Alliance to facilitate Chinese students to receive applications from American private schools.

This means that more Chinese children, especially those who intend to leave the country, will take part in the SSAT examination, even from the third to the primary examination.

Just in October, Dr. Liu Zhenhua, Chief Testing Officer of SSAT, represented the international school at the Shanghai Bridge, who visited the official medal ceremony and conducted an international educational campaign with colleagues from the educational community and parents of students. On this occasion, the Foreign Beach interviewed Dr. Liu Zhenhua and the General Manager of SSAT, Zhang Xu, to explore the changes and changes in the future SSAT examination, as well as the capacity needed for elite learning.

Dr. Liu Zhenhua received a special visit from the beach.

Changes and changes in SSAT

Level 1 to the first threshold of graduation

This summer, the University of Chicago, United States, issued a statement requesting that students be required to provide SAT examination results. Similarly, regular schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia University, etc., have also decided to degrade their performances such as SAT or ACT.

Does this phenomenon prejudge the success of SSAT in applying for private secondary schools in the United States, and will it become “unable”? With this question, the beach asked Ms. Zhang Xu.

“There is no doubt that SSAT remains the merit of a bidding examination that must be offered by private United States schools, a threshold that must be put in place. Perhaps some of the American undergraduate schools have no rigid requirements for SAT in their application conditions; however, for private secondary schools in the United States, SSAT remains the most important reference for their enrolment in school, and Zhang Xu responded.

2 Does not adjust the examination for Chinese students’ performance

At present, Chinese students in the SSAT examination have repeatedly scored 2300+ or even full. Many presume that in the future, SSAT may contain Chinese high-level candidates by making the examination difficult or reforming the content of the examination.

Dr. Liu Zhenmin, in his capacity as Chief Testing Officer, directly denied this assertion. “SSAT is an examination for students worldwide and can only be fine-tuned on the basis of the overall performance of global students and not specifically directed to Chinese students for reform and adjustment.”

However, the SSAT examination has a very important feature, which is to focus on the ability of students to generate thinking and solve problems. These capabilities are the student character of the American top private schools, and are related to the future achievements of students entering universities and even working. Therefore, innovation and reflection in the content of the examination will remain the main trend of SSAT.

3 Possible difficulties in mathematics

Dr. Liu Zhenmin revealed the difficult trend of future SSAT, which “would be somewhat more difficult in mathematics and less difficult in terminology. After all, SSAT and Toow are not the same, and it is not a special language assessment.”

The mathematical module, one of the three SSAT scores, is not merely a study of specific knowledge points, but rather a focus on whether pupils’ minds are scattered and whether they can be innovative. This requires students to devote greater attention to the mindset rather than to memetic memories and concepts; for basic knowledge and doctrine, it is not only clear but flexible.

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