essay during ISEE testing at a Prometric Center

[Anonymous]

I have a question about the online ISEE testing at a Prometric Center. It says on their site that the essay has to be typed... no handwritten essays allowed when you do this option of testing. My child has never typed anything in his life and would not be able to type an essay, so would we be able to do this online ISEE test and just forgo the essay?? What would a school think of this? Anyone have experience with this?

[Anonymous]

How old is your child PP?

[Anonymous]

Have your kids start practicing now. He or she can hunt and peck out an essay. They aren’t very long.

I’m stunned your kid has never typed. My kids started typing in school in 3rd or 4th grade, plus they have had access to computers for longer than that at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child PP?

Child would be applying for 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child PP?

Child would be applying for 6th grade.

Can he take the ISEE at a testing location where he can handwrite the essay? My DS took it a few years ago at a local independent school sometime in December if I remember correctly. Another question is how is it that your 5th grader has never typed anything? Are you coming from a Waldorf school?

[Anonymous]

DD also took the ISEE at the Bethesda location. She did have to type it but because she was given scrap paper she was able to outline her essay first and then type it.

Have DC practice typing and outlining an essay. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

Think you need to look for a testing site that isn’t online. My daughter took the ISEE and bubbled in answers and hand wrote the essay (different state).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child PP?

Child would be applying for 6th grade.

Can he take the ISEE at a testing location where he can handwrite the essay? My DS took it a few years ago at a local independent school sometime in December if I remember correctly. Another question is how is it that your 5th grader has never typed anything? Are you coming from a Waldorf school?

My DD is at a “big3” here and in in 4th and had doesn’t type much. Not even enough to type an essay for a test. Anything they type theybwork on for many weeks.

I Personally am perfectly happy with the lack of dependence on computers at her school. Let the kids work on their fine motor skills. This is the time. They have the rest of their lives to text and type.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child PP?

Child would be applying for 6th grade.

Can he take the ISEE at a testing location where he can handwrite the essay? My DS took it a few years ago at a local independent school sometime in December if I remember correctly. Another question is how is it that your 5th grader has never typed anything? Are you coming from a Waldorf school?

My DD is at a “big3” here and in in 4th and had doesn’t type much. Not even enough to type an essay for a test. Anything they type theybwork on for many weeks.

I Personally am perfectly happy with the lack of dependence on computers at her school. Let the kids work on their fine motor skills. This is the time. They have the rest of their lives to text and type.

And yes make fun of my bad typing. It’s more that I don’t have on my glasses ?

[Anonymous]

DS is in a private K-8 and is applying out for 7th. He took the ISEE practice test with his tutor company last weekend and apparently he had never taken a test with bubbles before. He actually crossed a few answers out and filled in another bubble!

DH and I were ROTFL as growing up we spent a day before each school standardized test learning how to properly color in bubbles. God forbid you had to erase an answer... you better have a damn excellent eraser.

[Anonymous]

Definitely practice the bubble if you go that route. I got a follow up call from ISEE that I bubbled in my credit card info wrong...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a question about the online ISEE testing at a Prometric Center. It says on their site that the essay has to be typed... no handwritten essays allowed when you do this option of testing. My child has never typed anything in his life and would not be able to type an essay, so would we be able to do this online ISEE test and just forgo the essay?? What would a school think of this? Anyone have experience with this?

Sorry I had to reactivate this old post as I was searching for some information about essay writing for ISEE.
How can they expect a 4th grader (just entering 4th grade) type an entire Essay. It will take her a whole hour just to type in the essay. is it possible to take a photo of what one wrote on paper?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question about the online ISEE testing at a Prometric Center. It says on their site that the essay has to be typed... no handwritten essays allowed when you do this option of testing. My child has never typed anything in his life and would not be able to type an essay, so would we be able to do this online ISEE test and just forgo the essay?? What would a school think of this? Anyone have experience with this?

Sorry I had to reactivate this old post as I was searching for some information about essay writing for ISEE.
How can they expect a 4th grader (just entering 4th grade) type an entire Essay. It will take her a whole hour just to type in the essay. is it possible to take a photo of what one wrote on paper?

My child took the test at the school we were applying to and was allowed to handwrite the essay as a 4th grader applying to 5th. Does one of your schools of choice offer it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child PP?

Child would be applying for 6th grade.

They are going to need to start getting used to typing for school anyway. Might as well start now.