Eight skill guides, one per area
The practice pages give you questions and answers. These give you the routine that produces the answer: what each area asks for, a method that works across the whole area, worked examples, and the specific mistakes that have a wrong choice waiting for them.
SAT Math
SAT Algebra
Algebra is the largest single slice of the SAT Math section, and it is the one where speed compounds. Almost every question reduces to the same move made in a different costume: get the unknown alone, or make two expressions equal and see what follows.
SAT Advanced Math
Advanced Math is where the SAT stops asking you to solve and starts asking you to recognise. The arithmetic is rarely harder than in Algebra; what changes is that the fastest route depends on spotting the shape of the expression before you touch it.
SAT Problem-Solving & Data Analysis
The arithmetic in this area is the easiest on the test. The difficulty is entirely in deciding what to compute. A question will give you five numbers and ask for a relationship between two of them, and the wrong pair is always available as a choice.
SAT Geometry & Trigonometry
This is the smallest of the four Math areas and the most visual. A question that looks impossible in words is often obvious once drawn, and a sketch takes ten seconds. The formulas you need for area, volume and circles are supplied on the test; what is not supplied is the decision about which one applies.
SAT Reading & Writing
SAT Information & Ideas
Every question in this area has the same underlying demand: the answer must be supported by the passage, not merely consistent with it. A choice can be true about the world, sensible, and even likely, and still be wrong because the text does not establish it.
SAT Craft & Structure
Craft and Structure asks what a word means here, what a sentence is doing here, and how two texts stand toward each other. In all three, the answer is fixed by the surrounding sentence rather than by the most familiar definition or the most agreeable reading.
SAT Expression of Ideas
This area is unusual on the SAT because it tells you what it wants. A synthesis question names the writer's goal in its final sentence, and the choice that meets that goal wins even when another is more elegant. Reading the goal is most of the work.
SAT English Conventions
Conventions is the most learnable area on the test, because the rules are finite and the same handful is tested again and again. Nearly every question resolves once you have identified the subject and the main verb, which is why that identification is the first move rather than a last resort.