ISEE Prep Classes

The best ISEE prep in DFW, without the stress.

School admissions without the worry.

What's included

The class is our full upper-level ISEE curriculum, delivered in a small-group setting with individual help for every student. Need middle or lower level help? Let us know.

Eight sessions of instruction. Not eight blocks of supervised practice. Our instructors teach strategies, walk students through curriculum and test material, and target the places students can see the biggest returns on their time. We limit class sizes so students get personal attention.
Practice tests. A middle-level baseline before the class begins if you don't have one, and an upper level during the program to measure progress. More are available if you want them.
A focused homework plan. Quality prep that respects student time, not rote repetition designed to fill hours.
Our own curriculum. Not a workbook licensed from another company or made up as we go along. Every lesson, drill, and explanation in the binder was written by our instructors, based on what we've seen actually increase scores over 15+ years of teaching the ISEE.
The largest score increases: Our ISEE score improvements are the highest in the metroplex.
Lifetime perks. Free weekend tutorials and discounted private tutoring for any future one-on-one help.

Our ISEE classes start in late fall, as students prepare to take the ISEE in the winter testing season for DFW private school applications. We recommend registering for an ISEE date that will happen shortly after your class ends. Need a hand with the process? Give us a call at (214) 295-8265, and we'll figure out what makes sense for you.

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Before you decide

Do you need a class?

Maybe not.

We recommend our group classes as a starting place for most families, but there are plenty of occasions that we suggest holding off, either for now, or on prep entirely.

The student isn't in the fall of their 8th grade year. Prep that starts earlier focuses on content that students will already learn in school, at a natural pace. There's no benefit to starting early. Beyond that, the research is clear: students don't need hundreds of hours of prep, and prep works best when it leads up to a specific test date.
Scores are already high. If your stanine scores are in the 5-6 range, you don't need prep for the vast majority of DFW-area private schools. There are a few, highly selective schools that look for higher scores, but unless you're targeting one of them, there's no need to do prep, and even then you don't need a perfect score to be accepted.
You're not sure how you're doing right now. Take a baseline test first. You may not need a class at all.

Won't we be behind?

Nope. Seriously.

We're a test prep company: if we genuinely thought that students need more test prep or an early start, we'd sell it to you. It doesn't, and so we don't.

There's a lot of misinformation and FOMO marketing out there in the test prep industry, and we put together a long guide about the research and red flags to watch for. The short version, though, is that students typically see swiftly diminishing returns with test prep, and prep is most effective when it leads directly into a real, official test. That's why our classes are built around students registered for a specific test date.

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The Instructors

It's right there in our name.

Most prep companies hire based on test scores. It's not enough.

We hire high-scorers, too, but that's just the start. A great test-taker isn't automatically a great teacher, so we also look for communication skills, patience, and the ability to explain a problem clearly from more than one direction. And it's not enough to just have been a former student of ours or to have attended a great college. Every instructor goes through weeks of training and mock classes before they ever teach a paying student, whether they attended Harvard, another one of the Ivies, or a top public flagship. It matters.

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Real results

What sort of increase can we expect?

Honest answer? It depends on the student. But we've served families across DFW since 2007, and in that time, our students' score gains have run roughly 50% higher than the industry-typical score increase. Schools we partner with have the highest average ISEE scores in the metroplex. We've taught thousands of students, and they've gone on to selective private schools around the country.

Have questions? Reach out - we'd be happy to answer them.

We don't do inflated score gain numbers.

We measure improvement against the student's actual official baseline score, not against a "diagnostic" we engineered to be harder than the real test or a test someone took freshman year. Early or deflated baselines produce inflated gains, and the industry has used this trick for decades to manufacture impressive-looking results. Our increases show up where it matters: on school applications.

No Predatory Prep

Here's what we don't do.

Phony waitlists, "limited" slots, or other FOMO marketing. Parents need the best prep for their student, not a used car sales pitch.
Long term contracts. If a prep company was effective, they wouldn't need you to pre-commit before you see results.
A too-early start. Early prep makes prep increases look larger, but it doesn't actually change the final result.

Hundreds of hours of unneeded prep. If we thought more was more, we'd offer it. It doesn't, and it wastes time better spent elsewhere.
Inflated score gains. We measure against a real, official test. No way-too-early or too-difficult "diagnostic" tests.

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Still have questions?

Get in touch. We'd be happy to answer them.

Start with a free practice test 214-295-8265questions@dfwtestprep.com