Perfect1600 Research
One report per test date. What students found difficult, what the exam concentrated on, and what to work on before your next sitting, with original questions modeled on each exam.
Next report: September 2026, a week after that exam.
The August SAT turned on vocabulary more than any recent form, and the words students brought back were ordinary ones used in unfamiliar places. What the exam concentrated on, why knowing a definition was not enough, and three original questions modeled on it.
Read the reportJune produced the hardest math reports of the year, and a calculator that stuttered when students needed it most. What the exam actually demanded, why the tool did not save anyone, and three original questions modeled on it.
Read the reportMay split students almost evenly between easy and brutal, and the reason was which section they meant. Manageable math, a punishing Reading and Writing module, and what that combination tells you about how to prepare.
Read the reportMarch left students arguing about single words long after the exam ended. Why those arguments are the most useful thing about the sitting, what the geometry actually demanded, and three original questions modeled on it.
Read the reportStudents left December agreeing on one thing and arguing about everything else, because much of what they asked afterwards was not about difficulty at all. What the exam did, and why the two questions students spent the most energy on have no useful answer.
Read the reportNovember leaned on geometry harder than any recent form, and produced more talk about the calculator than any exam of the year. What the shapes questions actually asked, why Desmos was the wrong instinct, and three original questions modeled on it.
Read the reportOctober produced the strongest difficulty reaction of the autumn and a confident, entirely wrong theory about how the SAT is scored. What made the math hard, what actually happens to your raw score, and three original questions modeled on it.
Read the reportSeptember was the quiet one, and the most revealing. Statistics and paired passages carried the exam, and students discovered something about the test they were sitting that changes how you should read anyone else's account of it.
Read the reportPractice material is drawn from an archive of retired questions. The live exam keeps moving, and the gap between the two is the gap most students mistake for a bad day. These reports track that gap one test date at a time, from what students tell us after each exam and from our own research into the question types recent forms have used.
They are not a blueprint and they are not a leak. Every practice question is original. We have no scoring curve data, and we cannot tell you which items were unscored. Where we are reading the test rather than reporting it, the article says so. For the pattern across every recent exam rather than one of them, see what eight recent exams actually tested.