Dear Parents,

In only a few more years, your child will be getting ready to enter the university of his/her choice through completion of a college-ready courseload at school and the CollegeBoard’s SAT. The SAT measures a student’s college-readiness skills in three key areas: Critical Reading, Mathematical Reasoning, and Writing, and students take the SAT for the first time during the Spring of Grade 11.

 

For a number of years, one of our steps towards preparation for the SAT has been the administration of the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) to students in Grades 10 and 11, and (from next year) to students in Grade 9 as well. Now, the CollegeBoard has offers us an additional tool to better help students on the track to college entry and college success. ReadiStep testing enables key areas of strength or areas in need of improvement to be identified at a very early stage, and so enables the school to prepare for, provide and ensure optimum learning opportunities for all students as they enter High School, and then work towards the SAT, graduation, university entrance and future success.

 

ReadiStep is a standardized test that provides students, parents and the school valuable information about student learning and performance prior to the students entering High School. It is fully aligned to the CollegeBoard’s college-readiness skills, as well as curricular standards in Math and English Language Arts, and follows a structure and format similar to the PSAT and SAT.

 

We will conduct ReadiStep testing with all Grade 8 students on Wednesday, October 15^th.

 

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

Sincerely,

Allison Fleet

American Senior School Principal