Preptics
Guide

Lessons and drills, and how they differ

One teaches and checks; the other only checks. Both count the same.

There are 30 Digital SAT skills and 90 micro-lessons across them — three per skill.

  1. A lesson is a few cards carrying one idea, with the outline of the whole lesson beside them.

    A micro-lesson open on its first card: a tip about reading the two sentences around a transition, the idea it turns on, and Back and Next at the foot of the card.
  2. Then its recall questions. Answering correctly is what advances you, and the explanation comes with the answer either way.

    A recall question at the end of a micro-lesson, answered correctly, with the explanation of why the answer is right shown underneath.
  3. A drill is the same questions with the teaching removed, ordered by the skills you keep missing.

    A drill question marked as due for review, with the skill it belongs to, an optional how-sure-are-you choice, and four answer options.

A lessonLink to the section: A lesson

A few cards carrying one idea, with a diagram where a diagram explains it better, and then recall questions. You do not advance by clicking next — you advance by answering correctly, which means a lesson you rushed does not register as a lesson you did.

A drillLink to the section: A drill

The same questions with the teaching removed: question, answer, correction, next. No cards, no reading step, no unlock gate. Fast enough to do ten of standing up, and ordered by the skills you keep getting wrong.

What proficiency measuresLink to the section: What proficiency measures

Your answers, not your progress through a page. There is no route through the material that produces a high number without producing correct answers first.

Find both under Materials and Drills.

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