Every lesson in the SAT Prep slide course, in full text: 36 decks, 2242 slides.
SAT Math: Algebra, from the DiagnosticA trial-session algebra deck: how the digital test is built and why module one accuracy matters most, a six-question timed diagnostic with one skill per question, then the named rules behind each miss — clearing fractions, distributing negatives, choosing between substitution, elimination and the graphing calculator, the 'for what value of k' systems question, flipping inequalities, and translating word problems — closing with an error log and a four-week plan.
Double-Checking Your AnswersWhat to do with the minutes left at the end of a module: the three-pass review system, Reading and Writing trap tactics, the four-step math answer check, how to budget review time, and the evidence rule that decides when to change an answer and when to keep it.
SAT Reading & Writing: Grammar and VocabularyThe Reading and Writing half of a trial session: deciding punctuation between clauses by asking whether each side is a complete sentence, the comma splice and its four repairs, colons and matched pairs, subject-verb and pronoun agreement by crossing out what sits between, dangling modifiers, choosing transitions by naming the relationship first, answering vocabulary questions from context with a cover-and-predict routine, and the goal-based questions where true is not the same as correct.
SAT Math Type 1: Nonlinear FunctionsThe most common SAT Math question type (14.0% of the bank): quadratics, exponentials, polynomials and radicals. Covers the three forms of a quadratic and what each hands you for free, the vertex as the midpoint of the zeros, exponential growth and decay as a times b to the x, percent change as a multiplier, transformations of a graph, and degree as a cap on the number of zeros — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 2: Linear FunctionsThe second most common SAT Math question type (9.2% of the bank): modelling and interpreting a constant rate of change. Covers naming the rate and the starting value in the story's own units, function notation as a point on a graph, reading a linear function from a table by constant first differences, solving for an input that hits a target, and comparing two linear plans — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 3: Nonlinear Equations and SystemsThe third most common SAT Math question type (8.7% of the bank): solving equations that involve a square, a root or a denominator, and systems where one equation is curved. Covers moving everything to one side, factoring versus the quadratic formula, the discriminant as a solution counter, extraneous roots from squaring, excluded values from denominators, and substituting a line into a curve — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 4: Linear Equations in Two VariablesThe fourth most common SAT Math question type (7.3% of the bank): the algebra of the line itself. Covers slope from two points in a consistent order, slope-intercept and point-slope forms, standard form and its intercepts, parallel and perpendicular slopes, horizontal and vertical lines, and the axis-scale check that decides whether anything read off a graph is trustworthy — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 5: Systems of Two Linear EquationsThe fifth most common SAT Math question type (6.6% of the bank): two conditions on two unknowns. Covers elimination and substitution and when each is faster, translating a two-quantity word problem into two equations, deciding solution count from slopes and intercepts without solving, using Desmos to read an intersection, and the discipline of answering the coordinate the question actually asked for — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 6: Equivalent ExpressionsThe sixth most common SAT Math question type (6.1% of the bank): rewriting rather than solving. Covers the substitution test that turns algebra into arithmetic, the exponent rules, the three factoring patterns, distributing a negative across every term, cancelling factors rather than terms in rational expressions, and combining fractions over a common denominator — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 7: Linear Equations in One VariableThe seventh most common SAT Math question type (6.0% of the bank): one unknown, one equals sign, straight lines only. Covers inverse operations in the right order, clearing fractions by multiplying through, distributing before collecting, gathering variables on one side, the no-solution and infinitely-many variants, and the discipline of answering the expression the stem asked for rather than the value of x — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 8: Area and VolumeThe most common Geometry question type on the SAT (5.3% of the bank). Covers using the provided reference sheet rather than memory, keeping units straight between linear, square and cubic measures, the scaling rule that areas grow by the square and volumes by the cube, composite shapes built by adding and subtracting whole shapes, sectors and arcs as fractions of a circle, and working backwards from a volume to a missing dimension — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 9: Ratios, Rates, Proportions and UnitsThe most common Problem-Solving and Data Analysis type (4.9% of the bank): proportional reasoning and unit conversion. Covers setting up a proportion with units attached, cancelling units like algebra as a check on the setup, chained conversions, scale drawings, the difference between part-to-part and part-to-whole ratios, and telling direct from inverse proportion — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 10: Lines, Angles and TrianglesThe second most common Geometry type on the SAT (4.7% of the bank): angle chasing and similar triangles. Covers the angle sums that fill in a figure, vertical and corresponding angles across parallel lines, isosceles triangles, the exterior angle rule, matching corresponding sides of similar triangles by the angles they face, and the discipline of using only what is marked when a figure is not drawn to scale — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 11: PercentagesA high-frequency Problem-Solving type (4.5% of the bank), built on one conversion: a percent change is a multiplier. Covers turning any increase or decrease into a number you multiply by, why successive changes multiply rather than add, percent of versus percent greater than, reversing a change by dividing rather than subtracting, and the percent-of-what question that decides most of these — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 12: One-Variable DataA high-frequency Problem-Solving type (4.3% of the bank), and an interpretive one rather than a computational one. Covers mean, median, mode and range, reading a frequency table so each row counts as often as its frequency says, why the mean chases outliers and the median ignores them, comparing standard deviations without ever calculating one, and reading histograms and box plots — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 13: Linear InequalitiesThe last of the high-frequency Algebra types (4.2% of the bank): inequalities in one or two variables. Covers solving exactly as you would an equation with the one exception that multiplying or dividing by a negative flips the sign, translating at most and at least into the right symbols, representing solutions on a number line, and identifying shaded half-planes and systems of them by testing the origin — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 14: Two-Variable Data and ScatterplotsThe first of the long-tail Math types (3.8% of the bank), and an interpretive one: a scatterplot with a fitted model, and questions about what that model says. Covers reading the slope and intercept of a line of best fit in the story's own units, choosing between linear, quadratic and exponential models by asking whether the data bends, the difference between interpolation and extrapolation, and why correlation does not license a causal claim — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 15: Right Triangles and TrigonometryA small and completely closed Math type (3.0% of the bank) that repays study out of proportion to its share. Covers the Pythagorean theorem and the triples worth recognising on sight, labelling opposite and adjacent from the NAMED angle before using SOH-CAH-TOA, the two special right triangles, and the complementary-angle identity that sine of an angle equals cosine of its complement — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 16: CirclesA Math type (3.0% of the bank) with two distinct halves. Covers the standard equation of a circle and reading its centre and radius with the signs flipped, completing the square to get there from an expanded equation, arcs and sectors as fractions of a whole turn, converting between degrees and radians, and the difference between an arc length and a sector perimeter — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 17: Probability and Conditional ProbabilityA long-tail Math type (2.5% of the bank) that is nearly always a two-way table and nearly always one division. Covers probability as a fraction of a population, how the phrase given that shrinks the denominator to a single row or column, why conditional probability is not symmetric, reading a two-way table without losing track of which total is which, and converting between counts, fractions and percentages — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 18: Sample Statistics and Margin of ErrorOne of the two rarest Math types (1.3% of the bank) and one of the highest returns per hour, because it is almost pure vocabulary. Covers reading a confidence interval as an estimate plus or minus a margin, why a larger sample narrows the interval, what a margin of error does and does not mean, and the rule that conclusions extend only to the population actually sampled — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math Type 19: Evaluating Statistical ClaimsThe rarest Math question type (0.7% of the bank) and the highest return per hour of study, because it reduces to a single distinction. Covers random assignment as the licence for causal claims and random selection as the licence for generalisation, how to tell an observational study from an experiment, why confounding variables defeat observational data, and how to match a conclusion to the study design that supports it — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Math: The Last 50 PointsThe content half of SAT Math prep for a student already scoring high: the three quadratic forms and the discriminant, counting solutions of linear and nonlinear systems, percent change and exponential growth, function notation and transformations, two-way tables and statistical claims, circles and the complementary-angle identity — each presented as the one trap that still costs points, with the tell that gives it away.
Every SAT Math Question TypeThe complete map of the SAT Math section as nineteen recurring question types, ordered by their measured frequency in a 1675-question College Board bank: what each type looks like on screen, the one opening move that beats the others, and the wrong answer built for you. Covers nonlinear and linear functions, equations and systems, equivalent expressions, area and volume, ratios and percentages, one- and two-variable data, inequalities, right-triangle trigonometry, circles, conditional probability, margin of error and statistical claims, and closes with a ranked study order and a four-week plan.
Every SAT Reading and Writing Question TypeThe complete map of the SAT Reading and Writing section as ten recurring question types, ordered by their measured frequency in a 1688-question College Board bank: what each type looks like on screen, the move you make before reading any choice, and the true-but-wrong answer built for you. Covers Command of Evidence, Words in Context, Rhetorical Synthesis, Transitions, Text Structure and Purpose, Central Ideas and Details, Inferences and Cross-text Connections, unpacks the Standard English Conventions grammar block rule by rule from the complete-sentence punctuation test through agreement, modifiers and apostrophes, and closes with a ranked study order and a four-week plan.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 1: Command of EvidenceThe most common question type in the Reading and Writing section (15.3% of the bank). Covers both its textual and quantitative forms, stating the claim in your own words before reading any choice, reading axis labels and units before a data choice, and rejecting choices that are true and on topic but support a different claim — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 2: Words in ContextThe second most common Reading and Writing type (14.3% of the bank), and usually the fastest points in the section. Covers the cover-and-predict routine, reading the connectors that set a sentence's direction, handling secondary meanings of familiar words, distinguishing shades within a group of near-synonyms, and why the hardest word is rarely the answer — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 3: Rhetorical SynthesisThe third most common Reading and Writing type (11.4% of the bank), and the most learnable hard-looking one. Covers underlining the stated goal and its verb, recognising that every choice is factually true, matching the goal's verb to what a sentence structurally does, and rejecting the most informative or best-written sentence when it does not perform the stated job — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 4: Form, Structure, and SenseHalf of the Standard English Conventions block (11.3% of the bank): the grammar that is not punctuation. Covers subject-verb agreement by crossing out the intervening phrase, pronoun agreement and the apostrophe pairs, verb tense chosen by the time marker, dangling modifiers and the first noun after the comma, and possessive apostrophes for singular and plural owners — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 5: BoundariesThe most rule-governed question type on the SAT (11.2% of the bank). Covers the complete-sentence test that decides every punctuation question, the comma splice and its four legal repairs, colons and dashes and what must precede them, non-essential elements fenced by matched pairs, and the commas that are never legal — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 6: TransitionsA high-frequency Reading and Writing type (10.2% of the bank) and one of the most mechanical. Covers naming the relationship between two sentences before reading any choice, the six relationships that cover nearly every question, grouping transition words by the relationship each signals, and why reading the choices first makes every one of them seem plausible — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 7: Text Structure and PurposeA Craft and Structure type (8.2% of the bank) that asks what a text is doing rather than what it says. Covers the function of an underlined sentence within its paragraph, the overall shape of a short passage, the deletion test for identifying a sentence's job, and the crucial distinction between an accurate summary of content and a correct statement of function — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 8: Central Ideas and DetailsThe most straightforward Reading and Writing type (7.4% of the bank), containing two questions that need opposite habits. Covers the scope test for main-idea questions — the answer must cover the whole text and no more — the open-book discipline for detail questions, why a true statement about one sentence fails as a main idea, and the too-broad distractor that overreaches — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 9: InferencesA Reading and Writing type (7.3% of the bank) with the clearest standard in the section: the answer must be FORCED by the text, not merely consistent with it. Covers reading the connector before the blank, predicting the conclusion before seeing the choices, rejecting reasonable real-world statements the passage does not license, and recognising the choice that overshoots by adding a cause or a generalisation — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
SAT Reading and Writing Type 10: Cross-text ConnectionsThe rarest Reading and Writing type (3.4% of the bank), and the only one with two passages. Covers summarising each author's position in a few words before reading any choice, locating the exact point of disagreement, answering what Text 2's author would say about Text 1's specific claim rather than about their own topic, and mapping the four possible relationships between two texts — with six worked examples, four traps and three checks.
The 60-Second RuleThe SAT Math pacing system: pre-decide hand / Desmos / skip before writing, cap directionless work at sixty seconds, mark and run a planned return sweep, check pace at Q7, Q11, Q15 and Q18, and classify every miss into one of six error categories.
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