Although the SSAT is less well-known than the ACT or SAT, its function is the same. Your SSAT score will become a major factor in any boarding school admission decision, especially at the more competitive schools, so preparing for it is wise.
An 18-year-old woman in above-average physical condition, for example, typically has a normal pulse rate between 66 and 69 beats per minute. This range changes only 1 to 2 beats a minute over the years, and returns to the 66 to 69 beat baseline for women 65 years or older in above-average condition.
So, for a 40-year-old woman, the traditional formula would have set 180 beats per minute as her maximum heart rate. Most trainers advise exercising somewhere between 65 and 85 percent of this maximum, so her target zone would be between 117 and 153 beats per minute.