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ISEE Middle Level FAQs

The Middle Level ISEE is the version most sixth and seventh graders sit. Below are the answers families ask for most often, current for this admission season.

1. Who takes the Middle Level ISEE?
2. Section by section, what does it look like?
3. Who runs the exam?
4. When can my child test?
5. How do we register?
6. What are the fees?
7. How are scores delivered?
8. How often can the test be taken?
9. How are scores read by admission offices?
10. When should preparation begin?

Students currently in grade 6 or 7 applying for entry to grade 7 or 8. It is the same exam blueprint as the Upper Level, normed against a younger applicant pool, which is why a seventh grader is not disadvantaged by questions written to stretch a ninth grader.

Mathematics Achievement is the longest section on the paper and the one that most often runs out of time. Quantitative Reasoning, by contrast, rewards estimation and comparison rather than computation: students who try to solve every item the long way lose points they already knew how to earn.

The essay closes the sitting, is not scored, and is forwarded to every school on your list.

E3n, the organization created by the 2026 merger of the Educational Records Bureau with the Enrollment Management Association, administers the ISEE and issues the score reports. Test content continues to be specified by a committee of independent school faculty.

Three testing seasons cover the year: fall (August-November), winter (December-March) and spring-summer (April-July). Delivery options are at-home remote proctoring, a participating school, a testing office, or a Prometric center. Applications for a September entry usually point to a fall or winter sitting.

Create an ISEE account at iseetest.org, pick the level, format and date, and add the schools that should receive the report. Six to eight weeks of lead time keeps your preferred format available.

Middle Level fees for 2026-27 run $170 for a school-proctored at-home test, $225 for a group administration at a school or office, and $250 for an E3n-proctored at-home test or a Prometric seat. Accommodated individual sittings are $255.

Through your ISEE account, usually within a few business days for online administrations. Families see the report first; designated schools receive an identical copy.

One sitting per season, up to three in a twelve-month span. Schools see the full history, so the useful strategy is to prepare once and sit once.

Scaled scores run 760 to 940 per section, but committees work from the stanine, a 1-to-9 band comparing your child with other applicants in the same grade over three years. Competitive independent schools tend to look for 7 or better, and moving a student from a 5 to a 7 is exactly what a focused course does.

Eight to ten weeks out. That is enough time to rebuild arithmetic and algebra habits, drill synonyms and sentence completions, and practice finishing Mathematics Achievement inside forty minutes, which is where most points are won.

See the Test Masters ISEE Middle Level course, or call (281) 276-7777.