About 10 weeks
A focused push
- 1Week 1Free diagnostic
- 12Weeks 2–7About two a week
- 8Weeks 8–10Two to three a week, the last in exam week
20 tests in total, plus the free diagnostic
Practice
An SAT practice test measures. It does not teach.
Twenty full-length, module-adaptive tests in the TestPrep simulator. Each one produces a score and an error profile; the review you do before the next test is what moves the score.
An SAT practice test is a full-length, module-adaptive test taken under real conditions — 98 questions, 2 hours 14 minutes of testing, one 10-minute break, in one sitting of about two and a half hours. Its job is to give you a comparable score and, more usefully, a fresh error profile. Review each test before you take the next.
Full length, one sitting
Module-2 accuracy is the thing you most need to see. Splitting a test across two evenings hides it completely.
Adaptive, for measurement
Only an adaptive test reproduces the routing decision between the two modules, so only an adaptive score is comparable to a real one.
Analysed before the next one
The review session is the study. If you have not classified the errors, the next test will simply re-measure the same ones.
Test by test
What is in each test
Counted from each test's own questions: how many come from each of College Board's eight content domains, and how many are easy, medium and hard.
| Test | Reading and Writing | Math | Difficulty | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craft and Structure | Information and Ideas | Standard English Conventions | Expression of Ideas | Algebra | Advanced Math | Problem-Solving and Data Analysis | Geometry and Trigonometry | Easy | Medium | Hard | |
| Free Full Length SAT Diagnostics TestFree | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 39 | 57 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 1 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 2 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 3 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 4 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 5 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 6 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 7 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 8 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 9 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 10 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 11 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 12 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 58 | 52 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 13 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 14 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 37 | 58 | 52 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 15 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 16 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 17 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 18 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 19 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
| Full Length SAT Practice Test 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 37 | 59 | 51 |
Each count covers every question stored for the test: the first module of each section and both versions of its second module. A sitting serves one version of each second module, chosen by how the first module went.
Schedule
How to spread 20 full-length tests
Start with the free diagnostic in week one, then spread twenty full-length tests up to the final check in exam week, so you measure after every block of work. The rule that makes them useful does not change: each test is reviewed before the next one is taken.
16 weeks · the group course
Taught first, tested hardest at the end
- 1Week 1Free diagnostic
- 20Week 11 to exam weekThree to four a week from the last topic lesson, when the course's tests open, alongside the Sunday practice-test reviews
20 tests in total, plus the free diagnostic
Six months
A long runway
- 1Month 1Free diagnostic
- 7Months 2–4One a fortnight
- 13Months 5–6One to two a week, closer together at the end
20 tests in total, plus the free diagnostic
In every plan the free diagnostic comes first, and the last of the twenty is taken three to five days before the exam, early enough to act on what it shows. If a review is not finished, move the next test back a day rather than stacking two unreviewed results.
Official
College Board practice tests
Free, official, and taken in the same app as the real exam. These should be the backbone of your practice testing.
The full-length practice tests in Bluebook are adaptive and scored, and because Bluebook is the same application used on test day, you also learn the interface — the annotation tool, the answer eliminator, the flag, the Desmos calculator — without spending exam minutes on it.
College Board also publishes downloadable paper practice tests. Those are useful for content drilling but are not adaptive, so their totals are not directly comparable to a digital score.
TestPrep practice tests
Twenty module-adaptive practice tests that sit alongside the official ones. College Board publishes only a handful of full-length tests, and a student testing regularly runs out of them in weeks. Ours keep the same format and add a domain, skill and cause breakdown to every result.
All 20 are included with the group course, where they open on the day of the last topic lesson, and with the Ultimate 50-lesson package, where they open the moment you pay. Anyone else can buy them in packs of 1, 5, 10 or 20. Every test can be taken twice, and tests stay on your account for 12 months.
From the test screen to your score report to your next session
Practice tests run in a Bluebook-style test screen with adaptive modules. The report at the end shows you which topic to go back to.
The screens below are a sample interface with illustrative data: the scores, times and topic results belong to no real student. They are not an official result or a promise of a higher score.Get used to the test-day tools before test day.
Math modules open the Desmos calculator and the reference sheet. In every module you can hide or show the countdown, flag a question with Mark for Review, cross out answer choices and jump to any question from the question list.
Module 2 difficulty is set by how you do in Module 1.
Test screenSample interface · illustrative data
Choose a module type
Section 2, Module 1: Math22:18
Question text is not shown in this preview.
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Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.
See where your score comes from.
Next to your total, the report shows your Reading and Writing and Math scores, which module 2 each section routed you to, your accuracy by topic and your average time per question. Review each question with its explanation and the time you spent on it.
Compare practice test packsPractice test reportSample interface · illustrative data
Total score1300/ 1600
- Reading and Writing
- 620
- 41/54 correct · module 2: Harder
- Math
- 680
- 36/44 correct · module 2: Harder
Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.
Start with your mistakes, then go back to that topic.
Open your wrong answers with their explanations under Review questions, or work through them with AI Tutor (your first 2 mistakes are free). Then pick the same topic and difficulty in the question bank for a short set.
Explore the question bankNext sessionSample interface · illustrative data
Pick a mistake
- 1Read the explanationCompare your answer with the correct one and with the time you spent.
- 2Work through it with AI TutorOpens from your practice test report; the first 2 mistakes are free.
- 3A short question-bank setMath · Algebra · Medium · 10 questions
Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.
After the test
The review session is the study session
Budget as long for the analysis as students usually budget for the next test.
- 01
Redo before you read
Attempt every wrong question again, untimed, before looking at any explanation. What you can now do is a timing problem; what you still cannot is a content problem.
- 02
Label the cause
Content gap, method error, misread, or out of time. Four labels, one per question. This is the step that produces everything useful.
- 03
Group and count
Errors almost never spread evenly. Two or three skills usually account for a large share of them, and those are the fortnight's work.
- 04
Rewrite the plan
Move hours towards the clusters and away from what has closed. A plan that survives three tests unchanged was not built from them.
How the error analysis works in detailReview mistakes with AI TutorStart with the free diagnostic
AI Tutor talks you through the questions you got wrong
When your SAT practice test ends, pick a mistake on your results page and the lesson starts. The tutor won't just read out the answer: it asks you, writes the steps on the board and lets you find where you went wrong.
Your first 2 mistakes are free (up to 10 minutes)
No card needed to try it, just your account.
Practice test FAQ
A full-length Digital SAT practice test is 98 questions in 2 hours 14 minutes of testing: Reading and Writing is 54 questions in 64 minutes and Math is 44 questions in 70 minutes, with a 10-minute break between the two sections. Allow about two and a half hours in one sitting.
As many as you can review properly before taking the next. Twenty full-length tests fit a preparation of ten weeks to six months: one a fortnight while content is being taught, then one to three a week in the final weeks, with each test's errors classified before the next one is taken.
Yes. The full-length adaptive practice tests in Bluebook are free and official, produced by the organisation that writes the exam. They should be the backbone of anyone's practice testing, whether or not they work with a tutor.
Up to twice. The second attempt lets you sit the same test again after working on your mistakes and see how much you have improved.
Practice tests you buy stay available on your account for 12 months from the date of purchase. When they come with a tutoring package or a course, the 12 months start on the day they are unlocked on your account.
For measurement, yes. A non-adaptive test cannot reproduce the routing decision, or the difficulty mix that follows from it, so its total is not comparable to a real one. Non-adaptive material is still fine for drilling individual skills.
Yes, including the break. How accuracy holds up in module 2, after two hours of concentration, is one of the things a full-length test exists to show, and splitting it across two evenings hides that completely.
Take your last full-length test three to five days before the exam. That is late enough to reflect where you are and early enough to review it; the final two days are for your error log and for sleeping properly.
That is almost always a sign that tests are being taken instead of studied. If the error profile from test three looks like the profile from test one, the problem is the work between them, not the number of tests.
Start with the free diagnostic
Take the free diagnostic under real conditions, review it properly, and let the schedule for the twenty tests that follow come from what it shows.