Starting a mock exam

1. Open Exams or the Digital SAT track page.
2. Pick a mock. Free ones say so; locked ones show a padlock.
3. Press Start. That begins a RANKED attempt — see Ranked and practice mode. If you have already used this form's ranked attempt, Preptics says so and offers to sit it as practice instead.
4. The first module opens and its clock begins.

Before you press Start#Link to the section: Before you press Start

Set aside two hours and twenty minutes. The exam itself is 2h 14m and there is no way to pause it.

Have scratch paper if you like, although there is a scratchpad built in. Close everything else. Put the phone somewhere else.

The first minute#Link to the section: The first minute

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1. 1Which section and module you are in.
2. 2The time left in this module, held on our server. Hide turns the clock off if watching it costs you more than it helps.
3. 3Mark for Review flags a question to come back to before the module closes.
4. 4The question menu: jump to any question in this module, and see which are answered, flagged or still blank.
5. 5Tools: the highlighter, line reader, scratchpad, a note on this question, and on Math the calculator and the reference sheet.

The clock is held on our server, not in your browser. It started when the module opened, so reading the instructions for four minutes costs you four minutes. Everything you need to know about the tools is in The tools you get during an exam — read it beforehand, not during.