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How to read your report card

What each chapter of your report means, what to look at first, and a week of practice that turns it into points.

Your report card turns a two-hour sitting into a few clear answers: how you did, why you missed what you missed, and what to do next. Each chapter is a question you would ask, and each one shows its main numbers even when it is closed.

How did I do?Link to the section: How did I do?

Your score is shown as a range, not a single number, with how confident we are in it. After one mock the total range is about 120 points wide. It narrows as you sit more mocks, because each sitting adds evidence.

The first chapter of a report card, “How did I do?”: the projected total as a range of about 120 points marked low confidence, drawn as a shaded band on a 400 to 1600 scale with a dashed flag at the student's target and a dashed outline where the previous mock landed, above separate ranges for Reading and Writing and for Math.
Your projected total, on the 400–1600 scale · A sample account, not a real student's results.
  1. Your range, shaded, with a line at its middle.
  2. The target you set, as a dashed flag.
  3. Where your last mock landed, as a dashed outline.

A result only counts as "up" or "down" when the new range no longer overlaps the old one. Two ranges that overlap are the same result measured twice, even if the middles differ.

What does it mean?Link to the section: What does it mean?

Your coach's summary of the sitting. When the wording is drafted by AI it says so, and every number in it still comes from your own results. The AI never decides a number, a category or what counts as a mistake.

What stands between me and my target?Link to the section: What stands between me and my target?

This chapter compares your range with your target and sorts every question you missed by how much work it takes to win back:

  • Quick wins are habits, like reading the whole question or never leaving a blank.
  • Needs practice means the skill is there but the clock or stamina got in the way.
  • Needs learning means the skill itself comes first, with its lesson.
  • Look one by one means there was no shared cause, so the question list is the place.

Start with quick wins. They cost the least and they come back fastest.

The report card chapter “What stands between me and my target?”: whether the target sits inside the projected range, and every missed question grouped by how quickly it can be won back — quick wins, needs practice, needs learning, or look one by one — each group with its count and its most common cause.
Every question you missed, grouped by how quickly you can win it back · A sample account, not a real student's results.

It counts questions, not points. How many points a question is worth depends on the whole test, and nobody outside the College Board can say exactly, so we do not guess.

If a section says it routed to the easier Module 2, that is a ceiling rather than a lost question: the top of that section's scale was out of reach this time. Module 1 accuracy is what lifts it.

What do I know?Link to the section: What do I know?

The College Board groups each section into four content domains. Each square in a domain's bar is one question you were given, filled in when you got it right. Under each domain are the skills that cost you questions, with your mastery of the skill when there is enough evidence to show one.

Start with the domain with the most empty squares.

The report card chapter “What do I know?”: each content domain of Reading and Writing and of Math drawn as a row of squares, one per question, filled when the answer was right, with the skills that cost questions listed underneath.
One square per question you were given, filled in when you got it right · A sample account, not a real student's results.

Why did I miss questions?Link to the section: Why did I miss questions?

Every wrong answer is sorted by the first rule it matches, using your timing, whether you changed your answer, and how well you know the skill:

  • Left blank: no answer. A blank scores the same as a wrong answer, so always guess.
  • Answered too fast: quicker than the question can be read.
  • Changed a right answer: your first answer was right.
  • Took too long: far more than the question's share of time, and still missed.
  • Not learned yet: a skill you have not mastered.
  • Slip on a skill you know: a skill you usually get right.
  • Late in the module: missed near the end, after your accuracy dropped.
  • No clear pattern: nothing the rules can name.
The report card chapter “Why did I miss questions?”: every wrong answer sorted into a cause, such as a slip on a skill the student usually gets right or taking too long, with a count and a suggestion on each card.
Every wrong answer, sorted by the first rule it matches · A sample account, not a real student's results.

Each card says what to try. Blind review on the same page lets you retry your misses with no clock before you see any answers, which shows which ones you really knew.

Where did my time go?Link to the section: Where did my time go?

Each module has its own clock. Reading and Writing allows about 71 seconds a question, Math about 95.

The report card chapter “Where did my time go?”: one bar per question across a module, a dashed line at that module's time budget for one question, and missed questions drawn as red striped bars.
One module's questions, against the time budget for one question · A sample account, not a real student's results.

If the tall bars are also the red ones, pacing is costing you.

How did Module 1 set up Module 2?Link to the section: How did Module 1 set up Module 2?

The Digital SAT picks your second module from your first. Enough right in Module 1 and you get the harder Module 2, which is what opens the top of the score scale.

The report card chapter “How did Module 1 set up Module 2?”: for each section, the Module 1 score against the cut the test used, and which Module 2 the attempt was routed into.
Module 1, the cut this test used, and which Module 2 it opened · A sample account, not a real student's results.

A week after a mockLink to the section: A week after a mock

  1. Read your report, then do blind review on your misses before you look at any answers.
  2. Pick your quick wins and practise that one habit on a short set of questions.
  3. Work through the lessons for the skills marked as needing learning.
  4. Do timed practice for anything marked as needing practice.
  5. Clear your review cards, then check when your next full mock is in your study plan.

Your study plan already moves the skills that cost you the most to the front after every mock.

Saving or printing your reportLink to the section: Saving or printing your report

Use Save as PDF on the report. You get every chapter, colour-coded, with this guide as the last page. Questions and their explanations stay online in your report, so the saved copy is short and easy to share with a parent, tutor or counsellor.

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