SAT Study App: Vocabulary, Grammar Rules and Maths Concepts from Your Own Prep Material
The SAT is a college admissions test used mainly in the United States. It is now taken on a computer, in a format that adapts to your answers. Most of the score comes from practice with real questions, but some of it is knowledge you can learn: grammar rules, word meanings and maths concepts. Type to Study helps with that layer.
What the SAT covers
The SAT is created and administered by the College Board. The current digital SAT has two sections, Reading and Writing, and Math, each split into two modules, with the difficulty of the second module depending on how you did in the first. It is taken on a laptop or tablet using the College Board's Bluebook app, at a test centre or school. Reading and Writing questions are short passages with a single question each. Math allows a calculator throughout.
Details such as timings and number of questions are set by the College Board and have changed over time, so check collegeboard.org for the current test specification and for which colleges require it.
What makes it hard and how to prepare
The test is about speed and accuracy on standard question types. The best approach is to learn the question types, practise them in the official Bluebook practice tests, and review every error. Write down the rule behind each missed grammar question, such as comma splices, subject-verb agreement or modifiers, and the maths concept behind each missed problem.
That list of rules and concepts is a good target for spaced repetition and recall. Testing yourself on it, instead of rereading it, is what the research supports (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006). Take full practice tests under timed conditions, and learn the on-screen calculator and annotation tools.
A plan using Type to Study
Upload your own notes from practice-test reviews, or a prep book chapter you own, and build a short course on grammar and maths concepts. Read the lessons, retype the rules with an example in Type mode, and use flashcards to bring each rule back on the Leitner schedule. Typed quiz answers make you explain why a sentence is wrong, which is stronger than recognising it.
Type to Study does not contain official SAT questions, and it will not replace the official practice tests. Use it in the margins: ten minutes a day on your error list, with full practice tests on weekends.
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