Detailed SSAT Tested Points
Logic and quantitative reasoning appear mixed into word problems and pattern questions. Students should learn to identify the hidden rule before calculating.
Patterns and Sequences
- Patterns
- Sequences
- Arithmetic patterns
- Geometric patterns
- Alternating patterns
Relationships and Deduction
- Number relationships
- Logical deduction
- Missing values
- Eliminate answers that violate the rule
Core Knowledge
Sequences: test addition, multiplication, squares, alternating rules, and repeating patterns.
Missing values: use relationships across rows, columns, or diagrams.
Logic: translate statements into clear conditions before solving.
Estimation: eliminate impossible choices quickly.
Practice
- Find the next number: 2, 6, 18, 54, ___.
- Find the next number: 5, 9, 17, 33, ___.
- If all bloops are razzies and all razzies are lazzies, what must be true?
- In the pattern 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, ___, what comes next?
- A code changes CAT to DBU. What is DOG in the same code?
- If x is positive and y is negative, which must be positive: xy, x - y, y - x, or y/x?
Show Answer Key
1. 162. Multiply by 3.
2. 65. Add 4, 8, 16, then 32.
3. All bloops are lazzies.
4. 29. Each term is the sum of the previous two after 3 and 4.
5. EPH. Each letter moves forward one.
6. x - y, because subtracting a negative makes it larger.