How soon after a test date does a report go up?

One week. That is long enough for a full picture of what students found difficult to come in, and long enough for us to have written and checked the practice questions that go with it. Anything published the same evening is guesswork.

Are these real SAT questions?

No. Every question in these reports is original, written by our team around the kinds of questions an exam used. We do not reproduce secure test content, and you should be wary of anyone who offers to. What repeats between exams is the pattern, not the wording.

Do the questions in these reports show up on the real test?

No, and nobody can promise that. What recurs across exams is the shape: the same skills, the same question types, the same traps, in new wording. Practising those shapes is what helps, and it is the honest version of the claim.

Which SAT test date is easiest?

None of them, in the sense that matters. Every form is calibrated against its own difficulty, so an exam that feels easier does not convert to a higher score. What does change between dates is which skills get concentrated on, which is what these reports track.

How do I know if an SAT question was experimental?

You cannot, and the usual rule of thumb runs backwards. The SAT does embed unscored pretest questions, but they only generate useful calibration data if students treat them exactly like scored ones, so they are written and placed to be indistinguishable. A rule that flags the hardest questions is detecting discomfort rather than scoring.

Why did my friend get different SAT questions than me?

Two reasons. You may have been routed onto different versions of Module 2, and separately there are several forms of each module in circulation, so two students in the same room can meet different questions in the same slots. Different questions tell you which form each of you sat. They tell you nothing about who did better.

Is there a curve on the SAT?

Not the kind people mean. Nobody else's performance affects your score, and there is no quota of high scores. Each form is equated against its own difficulty, so the same ability earns the same score whichever form you sat. That is why an exam that felt brutal and an exam that felt easy can convert the same way.

How can I tell which Module 2 I got?

You can't, and comparing topics with other students won't settle it. Different forms carry different questions regardless of difficulty, so two students routed the same way can share almost none of their exam. Your Module 1 performance decides the routing, it is settled before you leave the room, and the harder Module 2 is the one that reaches the top of the scale.

What is a SAT Intel Report?

A single article per test date covering what students found difficult, what the exam concentrated on, and what to do about it before your next date, with three original questions modeled on that exam. It is the public half of the same research that goes into our Intel Tests.

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The SAT Intel Report

One report per test date. What students found difficult, what the exam concentrated on, and what to work on before your next sitting, with original questions modeled on each exam.

Next report: November 2026, a week after that exam.

October 2026

Vocab traps and constants that could be fractions

Reading Module 2 had the hardest vocab of the fall and long science graphs, while Math hid its points in letters standing for numbers. Seven themes, each worked through.

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September 2026

Conversions, and vocabulary that points backwards

Eight question types from the September 2026 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. Pyramids that gave the wrong height, vocabulary whose traps meant the opposite, and a circle you had to complete the square on. With what to practice for each.

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October 2025

Letters for numbers, and squared scale factors

Seven question types from the October 2025 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A quartic whose constants you match one power at a time, a tangent line that fixes a radius, and vocabulary whose clue sat in the next sentence. With what to practice for each.

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August 2026

Standard topics with one extra step

Eight question types from the August 2026 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A rectangle inside a circle, a second root hiding outside the Desmos window, and vocabulary that turned on one concession. With what to practice for each.

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June 2026

Percent growth, tangent slopes, factor matching

Six question types from the June 2026 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A tangent line needing the negative reciprocal, growth by a constant percent rather than a constant amount, and a factor of x plus 2b answered as b. With what to practice for each.

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May 2026

Evidence questions, and a base chosen wrong

Five question types from the May 2026 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A weaken question you answer by ignoring convenience, a supporting finding that is an absence, and two percent rises where the base decides everything. With what to practice for each.

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March 2026

Unit slips and a control that moved

Six question types from the March 2026 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A horizon problem where meters and kilometers decide the answer, an exponential that becomes a quadratic, and vocabulary attached to the wrong noun. With what to practice for each.

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December 2025

Discriminants, coterminal angles and essential names

Six question types from the December 2025 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A quadratic with no real solutions, coterminal angles in radians, a mean read off a frequency table, and vocabulary built as a comparison. With what to practice for each.

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November 2025

Growth factors and expressions that say nothing

Five question types from the November 2025 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A 140 percent rise that means a factor of 2.4, an angle expression that tells you nothing, and a paired-text trap that swaps the texts over. With what to practice for each.

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September 2025

Two-stage growth and nested percents

Six question types from the September 2025 SAT, each worked through with the numbers students actually saw. A two-stage savings model, stacked percentages, a graph shifted before you solve it, and vocabulary in near-opposite pairs. With what to practice for each.

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What these reports are, and are not

Practice material is drawn from an archive of retired questions. The live exam keeps moving, and the gap between the two is the gap most students mistake for a bad day. These reports track that gap one test date at a time, from what students tell us after each exam and from our own research into the question types recent forms have used.

They are not a blueprint and they are not a leak. Every practice question is original. We have no scoring curve data, and we cannot tell you which items were unscored. Where we are reading the test rather than reporting it, the article says so. For the pattern across every recent exam rather than one of them, see what eight recent exams actually tested.

Common questions

How soon after a test date does a report go up?: One week. That is long enough for a full picture of what students found difficult to come in, and long enough for us to have written and checked the practice questions that go with it. Anything published the same evening is guesswork.
Are these real SAT questions?: No. Every question in these reports is original, written by our team around the kinds of questions an exam used. We do not reproduce secure test content, and you should be wary of anyone who offers to. What repeats between exams is the pattern, not the wording.
Do the questions in these reports show up on the real test?: No, and nobody can promise that. What recurs across exams is the shape: the same skills, the same question types, the same traps, in new wording. Practising those shapes is what helps, and it is the honest version of the claim.
Which SAT test date is easiest?: None of them, in the sense that matters. Every form is calibrated against its own difficulty, so an exam that feels easier does not convert to a higher score. What does change between dates is which skills get concentrated on, which is what these reports track.
How do I know if an SAT question was experimental?: You cannot, and the usual rule of thumb runs backwards. The SAT does embed unscored pretest questions, but they only generate useful calibration data if students treat them exactly like scored ones, so they are written and placed to be indistinguishable. A rule that flags the hardest questions is detecting discomfort rather than scoring.
Why did my friend get different SAT questions than me?: Two reasons. You may have been routed onto different versions of Module 2, and separately there are several forms of each module in circulation, so two students in the same room can meet different questions in the same slots. Different questions tell you which form each of you sat. They tell you nothing about who did better.
Is there a curve on the SAT?: Not the kind people mean. Nobody else's performance affects your score, and there is no quota of high scores. Each form is equated against its own difficulty, so the same ability earns the same score whichever form you sat. That is why an exam that felt brutal and an exam that felt easy can convert the same way.
How can I tell which Module 2 I got?: You can't, and comparing topics with other students won't settle it. Different forms carry different questions regardless of difficulty, so two students routed the same way can share almost none of their exam. Your Module 1 performance decides the routing, it is settled before you leave the room, and the harder Module 2 is the one that reaches the top of the scale.
What is a SAT Intel Report?: A single article per test date covering what students found difficult, what the exam concentrated on, and what to do about it before your next date, with three original questions modeled on that exam. It is the public half of the same research that goes into our Intel Tests.