About ExamReady SAT
ExamReady SAT is a free, ad-supported library of SAT and ACT math practice, organized the way the test is organized, and written by people who actually grade these tests.
Why we built this
The test prep market is enormous, but most of it is built around two business models that don't actually serve students. The first is the giant adaptive platform with hundreds of features, a paywall, and a UI that takes longer to learn than the test itself. The second is the YouTube tutor whose videos are great but whose practice library is whatever happened to come up that week. Neither model gives a student in the 580 band what they really need: a calm, well-organized list of practice items in the topic they keep losing points on, with worked solutions a teacher would actually accept.
We built ExamReady SAT to be that calm, well-organized list. It's a content site — pages of math, browseable in any browser including the school Chromebook locked down by your IT department. There's no quiz engine, no signup, no progress tracker phoning home, no premium tier, no notifications. Just pages.
How we organize the content
Both the SAT and the ACT publish official math content taxonomies. The SAT's is grouped under four categories: Heart of Algebra, Passport to Advanced Math, Problem Solving & Data Analysis, and Additional Topics in Math. The ACT's is grouped under categories like Pre-Algebra, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Coordinate Geometry, Plane Geometry, and Trigonometry. We use those exact taxonomies, with subtopics broken out so you can drill the specific skill that's costing you points.
Every practice question on the site is filed under its topic and subtopic, tagged with a difficulty band (Easy / Medium / Hard) calibrated to the official difficulty distribution, and accompanied by a worked solution that explains not just the answer but the test-day tactic — the shortcut, the plug-in, the answer-choice trick — that you'd actually use if you were 38 minutes into the section with three minutes left.
Where the questions come from
The practice questions on this site are written by us, modeled on the publicly published item formats and difficulty distributions in the College Board's SAT Math test specifications and ACT's official content guides. They are not transcriptions of the official tests — those tests are copyrighted, and re-publishing them is both illegal and unhelpful, since you should be using the real tests as untouched diagnostics. We point you to the real released tests for assessment, and we provide our own practice library for drilling.
Editorial standards
Every question goes through three checks: an authorship pass that writes the stem and the worked solution, a math pass that re-solves the question from scratch and confirms the answer, and a tactics pass that adds the test-day tip. Where a question fails any pass it goes back to revision. This isn't a foolproof system — no human editorial process is — but it's the same system used by the better commercial publishers, and it produces material we're willing to put our name on.
How we make money
The site shows display ads via Google AdSense. That's it. There is no paid tier, no email harvesting, no upsell to a tutoring company. Ads cover the cost of hosting and editing. If ads bother you, an ad blocker will silence them and the site will work fine.
Who's behind this
ExamReady SAT is operated by a small team of test-prep tutors who got tired of explaining the same five mistakes to every new student and decided to put the explanations on a website instead. The site is editorially independent and not affiliated with the College Board, Educational Testing Service, or ACT, Inc. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Get in touch
Found a typo? Disagree with a worked solution? Want to suggest a topic we should expand? Reach us via the contact page. We read everything and we update solutions when we get a good catch.