SAT Math

SAT Math, end to end

Everything you need to prepare for the math portion of the SAT — the official topic taxonomy, hundreds of practice items, breakdowns of every released official practice test, and study plans calibrated to your current score band.

What the SAT math section actually looks like

The SAT Math section is split across two modules under the digital format. Together they give you 70 minutes for 44 scored questions, with the second module adapting to your performance on the first. Calculator use is allowed throughout, and a built-in Desmos calculator is provided. Scoring runs from 200–800 on the math composite, and a single careless arithmetic slip can cost you 10–20 scaled points depending on where you sit in the curve. That's why SAT math rewards calm pacing as much as it rewards content knowledge.

The test is engineered to look like a math test but reward something subtler: reading carefully, recognizing the form of a problem, and choosing the cheapest method. Plenty of items can be cracked in under a minute by plugging in answer choices or testing simple values, and a student who can spot those shortcuts will out-score a stronger mathematician who insists on doing every problem the long way.

Topics

The SAT publishes an official topic taxonomy. Every question in our library is filed under one of these categories so you can drill exactly what you need.

Released practice tests

College Board has publicly released eight full-length SAT practice tests, plus the digital adaptive linear forms. We don't host the PDFs (those live on the official site), but every released test has a breakdown page here showing how each math item maps to the topic taxonomy.

• SAT Practice Test 1 — Officially released SAT practice test 1. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 2 — Officially released SAT practice test 2. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 3 — Officially released SAT practice test 3. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 4 — Officially released SAT practice test 4. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 5 — Officially released SAT practice test 5. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 6 — Officially released SAT practice test 6. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 7 — Officially released SAT practice test 7. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.
• SAT Practice Test 8 — Officially released SAT practice test 8. Covers all four math content categories with balanced difficulty.

Score-band guides

A SAT student in the 450 band needs different practice than one in the 700 band. Pick the band closest to your current score and the guide will tell you which topics are eating your points and what to do about it.

• SAT Math 400–500 band — Building solid foundations in linear equations and basic algebra.
• SAT Math 500–600 band — Locking down algebra and breaking into intermediate-difficulty items.
• SAT Math 600–700 band — Closing accuracy gaps and starting to attack hard items.
• SAT Math 700–800 band — Eliminating careless errors and mastering the hardest item types.

How students typically use this

The simplest cycle: take an official released test under realistic conditions, score it honestly, list every wrong answer with its topic, and come back here to drill the two or three topics that hurt the most. Repeat every week or two. 224 filed practice questions across the SAT library mean you can run that cycle for a couple of months without ever seeing a repeat.

If you're new to SAT prep entirely, start at the 8-week study plan and follow it from week 1.