What is an SAT question bank?

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.

Is there an official College Board question bank?

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.

How is a question bank different from a practice test?

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.

How many questions a day should I do?

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.

Should I practise at my current difficulty or above it?

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.

Practice

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.

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.

It is included with tutoring packages and group courses, and available on its own for Reading and Writing, for Math, or for both sections. 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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Question bank FAQ

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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