A+ Learning Center SSAT curriculum covers the following contents:

• Elementary Level SSAT - For children currently in 3rd and 4th grades who are applying for admission to 4th and 5th grades.

• Middle Level SSAT - For children currently in grades 5-7 who seek admission to grades 6 through 8.

• Upper Level SSAT - For children currently in grades 8-11 who are applying for admission to grades 9 through PG (Post Graduate).

• SSAT/ISEE Intensive Summer Prep Course

 Verbal:

•  Demonstrate command of the knowledge of word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

•  Distinguish among the associations of words with similar definitions/denotations.

•  Acquire and use accurately academic and domain-specific vocabularies.

•  Compare and contrast the following relationships among words:
   ✧Cause-effect
   ✧Part-whole
   ✧Positive-negative
   ✧Degree
   ✧Purpose
   ✧Association
   ✧Quantity-quality
   ✧Subjective-objective
   ✧Homophony
   ✧Active-passive
   ✧Physical-mental
   ✧Human-nonhuman
   ✧Syntax
   ✧Shape relations

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Reading Comprehension:

•  Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.

•  Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator in a text.

•  Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

•  Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly.

•  Demand the techniques to crack the following types of questions：
  ✧ Main idea Question
  ✧ Summary Question
  ✧ Inference Question
  ✧ Example Question
  ✧ Word-in-Context Question
  ✧ Analogy Question

       ✧ Understanding Attitude Question

       ✧ Understanding Purpose

       ✧ Relationship Question

       ✧ Overall Structural Relationships

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Writing:

•  Write narratives to develop imagined events.

• Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing the characters.

•  Organize an event sequence naturally.

•  Use narrative techniques to develop experiences and events.

•  Use a variety of transitional words/phrases to manage the sequence of events.

•  Use appropriate words and sensory details to convey experiences and events.