Free · ISEE Upper Level
Your free ISEE half-length test
Half of a full-length ISEE Upper Level test: 81 multiple-choice questions in four timed sections, then the essay, with an instant practice report and every explanation. Free — no card, and no email needed to try it.
- No credit card required
- Best on a laptop or desktop with a keyboard; a tablet or phone works too
- No email needed to try it — you can save your results afterward
- Original questions written for the ISEE Upper Level, separate from the 10 practice tests in the library
- 81
- Multiple-choice questions, four choices each, scored the ISEE way: +1, and nothing off for a wrong answer
- 96
- Minutes in all: 66 across the four multiple-choice sections, plus 30 for the essay
- 1
- Practice report, with an estimated full-length raw score and every answer explained
Half a full-length test, section by section
Five sections, each on its own clock, the essay last, with two breaks — 10 minutes after Section 2 and 5 minutes after Section 4. Both are optional: skip either to keep going. The test does not go back to a finished section, and there is no calculator.
| Section | This test | Time | Full-length test | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section 1 · Verbal Reasoning | 20 questions · 10 synonyms, 10 sentence completions | 10 min | 40 questions | 20 min |
| Section 2 · Quantitative Reasoning | 19 questions · 11 word problems, 8 quantitative comparisons | 18 min | 37 questions | 35 min |
| Break · optional | rest, or skip it and go straight on | up to 10 min | a break | 10 min |
| Section 3 · Reading Comprehension | 18 questions · 3 passages | 18 min | 36 questions | 35 min |
| Section 4 · Mathematics Achievement | 24 questions | 20 min | 47 questions | 40 min |
| Break · optional | rest, or skip it and go straight on | up to 5 min | a break | 10 min |
| Section 5 · Essay | 1 prompt · unscored | 30 min | 1 prompt · unscored | 30 min |
| Total | 81 questions + essay | 96 min, breaks optional | 160 questions + essay | 160 min, 180 with breaks |
What the report shows
- A raw score by section — under the ISEE's own rule: +1 for a correct answer, nothing taken off for a wrong one or a blank.
- An estimated full-length raw score — each section doubled — an estimate from half a test, said so on the page, and never an exam score.
- A skill map and the next skill to study — accuracy by skill, with the small samples marked as small rather than read as verdicts.
- Every question explained — why the key is right — for the two math sections, a check that confirms it and the traps behind the wrong choices; for verbal, a note on each wrong choice; for reading, the evidence line by line, a note on each wrong choice and a strategy for the question type.
- Two model essays for the prompt — a study model and a 30-minute model, each with seven notes on why it works.
No scaled score, percentile or stanine — those need equating data only the test makers hold, and this is a practice report.
This is half of one test.
The ISEE library is ten full-length tests — 1,600 questions — scored by the same rule and reviewed with the same explanations.