Reading the skill breakdown

The score tells you where you are. The breakdown tells you what to do on Monday.

It counts questions, not accuracy#Link to the section: It counts questions, not accuracy

A skill where you got 60% right across twenty questions cost you more than one where you got 40% right across five. Sorting by accuracy percentage puts the second at the top and sends you to work on something worth a fraction of the questions.

It counts questions rather than points, because how many points a question is worth depends on the whole test, and nobody outside the College Board can say exactly. Counting what we can count is the honest version.

How to use it#Link to the section: How to use it

1. Look at the gap between your two section scores first. A gap of 100 points or more means one section is where the next twenty hours go.
2. Inside the weaker section, take the top two or three skills by points lost.
3. Open drills — they are already ordered by your measured weakness.

Also review what you got right#Link to the section: Also review what you got right

Separate the questions you knew from the ones you guessed. A right answer for the wrong reason is a question you will get wrong under pressure, and it is currently invisible in your score.