What a study plan looks like
After your first full test on this site, I build you a plan that runs day by day to your SAT. Students kept asking what that actually looks like before they paid for it, which is fair, so here is one.
This is the plan for an example student who has the SAT on December 5 and starts today. The calendar uses the same rules as the real plans. The topics are real mistakes and basics from my question bank, and three days are opened up below so you can see exactly what is inside them.
Your own plan would look different, because it is built from the questions you missed and the wrong answers you picked.
Mistake days, basics, full tests, Desmos days, and a pacing day and a light day at the end.
Building the example calendar…
Days marked "Open below" are shown in full further down this page. In a real plan every day opens, and you can work ahead: finishing a day opens the next one.
The kinds of days
One mistake from your own tests: the wrong answer you picked, a short lesson, practice from easy to hard, and a check at the end.
The earlier-grade skills under the questions you missed. They come first, because everything else is built on them.
A full timed test, then a review the next day. After every test your plan rebuilds around the new mistakes.
In plans of 30 days or more, an official College Board practice test in Bluebook, then a day to review it.
Questions with video walkthroughs that show how the graphing calculator answers them faster.
A weekly day to finish anything you missed, a pacing day near the end, and a light day before the test.
Three days, opened up
These are the actual lessons and practice from the plan. Try the questions.
Slope formula: rise over run
1The idea
The slope of a line through two points $(x_1, y_1)$ and $(x_2, y_2)$ is $m = \dfrac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 - x_1}$, rise over run.
Slope measures how much $y$ changes for every $1$-unit increase in $x$.
Watch out for putting the $x$-values on top. It is always $y$ on top and $x$ on the bottom.
What is the slope of the line through $(1, 3)$ and $(4, 9)$?
$m = \dfrac{9 - 3}{4 - 1} = \dfrac{6}{3} = 2$
2Practice that climbs
Try each one on paper before you open the answer.
Fixing one mistake from your test
1The mistake
Subtracts the coordinates instead of averaging them when finding a midpoint
In the real plan, this step shows the question from your own test and the answer you picked, so you can see the mistake in your own work.
2The lesson
The midpoint of a segment with endpoints $(x_1, y_1)$ and $(x_2, y_2)$ is $M = \left(\dfrac{x_1 + x_2}{2}, \dfrac{y_1 + y_2}{2}\right)$.
Three things students miss. Add the coordinates, do not subtract them; subtracting is the setup for slope and distance. Divide both sums by $2$, not just one. And if you are given the midpoint and one endpoint, the other endpoint is $B = (2M_x - A_x,\ 2M_y - A_y)$: double the midpoint and subtract the known endpoint.
Find the midpoint of $(2, 1)$ and $(8, 7)$.
Add the $x$-coordinates: $2 + 8 = 10$. Divide by $2$: $5$.
Add the $y$-coordinates: $1 + 7 = 8$. Divide by $2$: $4$.
The midpoint is $(5, 4)$.
3Practice that climbs
Easy to hard. You see the answer and the working right after each one.
4The exit check
Each mistake day ends with a short check on fresh questions. Pass it and the mistake is marked fixed. Miss it and it comes back on a later day. That is how the plan keeps working on what is still costing you points instead of what you already know.
Let the graphing calculator do the work
1Try it, then watch
Each Desmos day has questions with a short video walkthrough. Try the question first, then watch how Desmos gets there. This one solves a system of equations by graphing both lines and clicking where they cross.
Your plan starts with one free test
Take a full practice test. When you finish, I ask for your test date and show your own plan, with the first days named, before you decide anything.
- Every day built from your own mistakes
- The plan rebuilds after every test you take
- Every mistake worked out step by step, and the Desmos videos
The plan is one payment of $29 to your test date, no subscription, with a seven-day money-back guarantee. The practice tests themselves are always free.