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SAT question bank: practise the specific skill, not the whole exam

Once a diagnostic has told you that your errors cluster in Transitions and in nonlinear functions, general revision is the wrong instrument. A question bank lets you point practice directly at those two things.

An SAT question bank is a collection of SAT-style questions tagged by content domain, skill and difficulty, so you can drill one narrow thing at a time. It complements full-length testing rather than replacing it: the test identifies the gap, the bank is where the gap gets closed, and the next test checks whether it did.

Filter to the actual gap

Domain, then skill, then difficulty band. A set of thirty questions on one skill produces a clearer signal than three hundred mixed ones.

Worked solutions, not just keys

An answer key tells you that you were wrong. A worked solution tells you which step diverged, which is the only part that transfers.

Untimed first, timed second

Build the method without a clock, then re-run the same skill under timing. Reversing that order teaches you to rush a method you do not have yet.
The TestPrep SAT question bank: a Words in Context question with the passage on the left, answer choices on the right and the mark-for-review and answer-eliminator tools
A Words in Context set in the TestPrep question bank: passage and question side by side, with mark for review and the answer eliminator.
Question bank results screen showing accuracy, correct, incorrect and unanswered counts and a difficulty breakdown
The end of a set: accuracy, correct and incorrect counts, and the difficulty breakdown that decides what to drill next.
Coverage

Every domain, filterable to skill level

The tags mirror College Board's own domain and skill structure, so a weakness identified on a score report maps directly onto a filter.

Reading and Writing

Information and Ideas

  • Central Ideas and Details
  • Command of Evidence (textual)
  • Command of Evidence (quantitative)
  • Inferences

Craft and Structure

  • Words in Context
  • Text Structure and Purpose
  • Cross-Text Connections

Expression of Ideas

  • Rhetorical Synthesis
  • Transitions

Standard English Conventions

  • Boundaries
  • Form, Structure, and Sense

Math

Algebra

  • Linear equations in one variable
  • Linear equations in two variables
  • Linear functions
  • Systems of two linear equations
  • Linear inequalities

Advanced Math

  • Equivalent expressions
  • Nonlinear equations in one variable
  • Systems of equations in two variables
  • Nonlinear functions

Problem-Solving and Data Analysis

  • Ratios, rates and proportional relationships
  • Percentages
  • One-variable and two-variable data
  • Probability and conditional probability
  • Inference from sample statistics
  • Evaluating statistical claims

Geometry and Trigonometry

  • Area and volume
  • Lines, angles and triangles
  • Right triangles and trigonometry
  • Circles

The official Student Question Bank

College Board publishes thousands of official practice questions, written by the people who write the exam, filterable by section, domain, skill and difficulty. It is free and it requires a College Board account.

Start there. No third-party bank, ours included, can match questions written by the test maker for calibration. What a supplementary bank adds is volume once you have worked through the official set on a given skill.

Official Student Question Bank

The TestPrep question bank

9,000 questions across both sections, tagged to the same domain and skill structure, with a worked solution on every one and difficulty bands so a set can be pitched just above the level a student is currently reliable at.

  • Reading and Writing3,300 questions (11 skills)
  • Math5,700 questions (19 skills)
  • Both sections9,000 questions (30 skills)

Pay once and the question bank stays open for 4 months. Nothing renews automatically. It is also included with the group course, where it opens once the course's first week is over, and with the Ultimate 50-lesson package, where it opens the moment you pay. The first 30 questions are free on registration, so you can see the tagging and the explanations before paying for anything.

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Pick a topic, practise, sort your mistakes.

The question bank uses the same kind of test screen as the practice tests. You build each set yourself; when it ends, every question's result and explanation are in front of you.

The screens below are a sample interface with illustrative data: the counts and times belong to no real student. They are not a promise of a higher score.

Build the set yourself: section, topic, question type and difficulty.

Choose Reading and Writing or Math, then a subtopic. In Math you can pick multiple-choice (MCQ) or student-produced response (SPR) questions. Set the difficulty to Easy, Medium or Hard, and work timed or untimed.

You make these choices; the question bank does not recommend topics automatically.

Open the question bank

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Set setupSample interface · illustrative data
Section
Topic
Question type
Difficulty
Mode
Your sample setMath · Algebra · MCQ · Medium · Timed, 120s per question

Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.

Practise in the test screen, then read the explanation side by side.

Math questions come with the Desmos calculator and the reference sheet. When the set ends, open each question with its passage, choices and explanation side by side, and compare your answer and your time with the correct answer.

Correct answers and explanations open with paid access; on the free questions you see which ones you missed.

See question bank pricing
After-set reviewSample interface · illustrative data
Question 1 of 3 Incorrect

Passage

Choices

  • A
  • BYour answer
  • CCorrect answer
  • D

Explanation

The solution steps appear in this column.

Your answer: BCorrect answer: CTime spent: 2:05

Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.

Filter the result, then build a new set on the same topic.

Each set ends with your accuracy, your correct, incorrect and skipped counts, and a breakdown by difficulty and topic. Filter the list to Incorrect, Skipped or, in timed sets, Took too long. Questions you have solved are not served again, so choosing the same topic continues with new questions.

Measure the topic in a full practice test
Set resultsSample interface · illustrative data
Accuracy
60%
Correct
6
Incorrect
3
Skipped
1

By difficulty

Medium4/6
Hard2/4
  • Question 3Incorrect2:05
  • Question 7Incorrect1:49
  • Question 10Incorrect1:57

Preview only: these controls do not start a test, load questions or save anything to an account.

Question bank FAQ

A searchable collection of SAT-style questions tagged by content domain, skill and difficulty, so you can practise one narrow thing at a time. It is the opposite tool from a full-length test: a test tells you where the problem is, a question bank is where you go to fix it.

Yes. College Board publishes a free Student Question Bank containing thousands of official questions, filterable by assessment, section, domain, skill and difficulty. It requires a College Board account to access. It should be part of any preparation, and anything else is supplementary to it.

A practice test is timed, full length and adaptive, and exists to measure. A question bank is untimed by default, narrow and filterable, and exists to build a skill. Using either for the other job is the most common mistake in SAT preparation.

Fewer, reviewed harder. Twenty questions in one skill with every error explained beats a hundred mixed questions marked and forgotten. Volume without review mostly rehearses whatever you were already doing wrong.

Mostly at the band where you are failing, which is usually just above where you are comfortable. Working exclusively on hard questions when medium ones are still unreliable feels productive and moves the score very little.

Know which filter to set before you start drilling

A diagnostic tells you which two or three skills your practice should be aimed at. Without it, a question bank is just a large pile of questions.

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