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How the digital SAT is built, where students lose marks, and how to practise so the hours count.
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AI
AI SAT prep: what it actually does, and what it can't
What AI can and cannot do for SAT preparation, and where models get questions wrong.
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Analysis
Thought analysis: what your working reveals that your score doesn't
Your score says how many you got right. Your working says why — and that is the fixable part.
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The test
How the digital SAT actually works
Two sections, four modules, 98 questions, 2h14m, and a second module that adapts.
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The test
Why the first module decides your score
The test adapts between modules, which makes the first one worth more than the second.
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Technique
Where the time actually goes
71 seconds a question on Reading and Writing, 95 on Math. Where the minutes actually go.
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Technique
How to use a practice test so it's worth the three hours
Sitting a mock is measuring. The improvement happens in the review afterwards.
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Reading & Writing
Every Reading and Writing question type, and what each is testing
Every question type in the section, what it is testing, and the trap built into it.
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Math
Grid-ins: the marks students lose for no reason
A quarter of Math is typed answers. The maths is not what loses the marks — the entry rules are.
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Getting started
Free digital SAT practice: what you actually need
What free practice must include to be worth using, and how to spot thin material.