The Independent Schools Examination Board (ISEB) Common Pre-Tests are standardised measures of ability and attainment taken when students are in year 6 or occasionally in year 7. They can only be taken once in any academic year. The senior schools to which students apply register students for the ISEB Common Pre-Tests.
The adaptive tests are created for ISEB by GL assessment. Adaptive means that the test gets harder when the student answers questions correctly and easier when the student answers the questions incorrectly.
The ISEB Common Pre-Tests are computerised tests which comprise of four multiple-choice assessments: English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.
The time allowed for each test is as follows:
- English | 25 minutes;
- Maths | 50 minutes;
- Verbal Reasoning | 36 minutes; and
- Non-Verbal Reasoning | 32 minutes.
Four strategies for remembering everything you learn
Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge,” shares psych writer Annie Murphy Paul. “We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts.
But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself – the ‘meta-cognitive’ aspects of learning – is more hit-or-miss, and it shows.
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge:
- knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming
- knowledge about how learning actually works
Source : Independent