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I dropped out of law school at UPenn to write SAT practice tests.

I spent most of my SAT prep taking full-length tests. After each one, my tutor and I worked through everything I missed. We stayed with each question until I could explain the correct answer and rule out every other choice. Between tests, I drilled the skills I kept getting wrong.

I got a 1590 and got into my dream college. I also tutor the SAT full time, and I’ve helped dozens of students score 1500 or higher, one on one. I’ve seen what works from both sides of the table.

That routine was simple, and it’s backed by science. It was also expensive. It took someone to explain every answer choice and enough practice tests to keep going, and most students don’t have either.

College Board gives you eight practice tests in Bluebook. At one a week, you’re out in under two months. If you’re serious about improving, you should be taking more than one a week.

I started Tryhard Prep so more students could prep the way I did, and I left law school to build it. We write our own practice tests, and they feel like the real thing. Every answer choice has its own explanation, which is what my tutor used to do for me. Your score report shows which question types need work, and you can drill any one skill on its own.

If anything on the site doesn’t work the way you expect, write to me at hello@tryhardprep.com. I read that inbox.

JesseFounder

How we make our practice tests insanely accurate

  • We measure each question’s difficulty against official SAT questions, so a hard question here is as hard as a hard one on test day.
  • Each wrong answer comes from a mistake students commonly make, so you learn to spot the same traps the SAT sets.
  • We check every answer key by solving the question without knowing which answer was intended.
  • Each test has the same mix of skills as a real one and sends you to an easier or harder second module the way Bluebook does.
  • About one in three questions we write gets rejected.
  • Scores are estimates, using scoring tables modeled on the ones College Board publishes. Every score report says so, and we adjust the tables as more students take tests here.

How we build our lessons

  • Our 53 lessons cover every skill on the test, plus grammar, strategy, and the Desmos calculator. They’re all free, and you don’t need an account.
  • We built them by studying thousands of real SAT questions for where students go wrong. Every trap a lesson warns you about is one the real test sets.
  • Each skill lesson shows you how to recognize the question type and how to work through it.
  • Every lesson has sample questions, written and checked the same way as the questions on our tests.
  • When your score report shows a weak skill, it links you straight to that skill’s lesson and a drill for it.

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