A two-week study plan for the December 5, 2026 SAT

Skill practice comes from the free SAT Suite Question Bank, where you can filter by domain and skill, or from Official Digital SAT Prep on Khan Academy. If one skill won't budge, a free session on Schoolhouse.world is worth an evening.

Bluebook has eight full-length SAT practice tests, per College Board's September 2026 announcement. They adapt the same way the real test does, and College Board says a score on one is highly indicative of your real score when you take it within a couple of weeks of test day under the same time limits.

In College Board's study of the class of 2025, students who finished one, two, or three or more Bluebook practice tests scored about 25, 45 and 60 points higher than similar students who took none. That's an association, not a promise, but it lines up with the plan: the first test finds the gaps, the second checks the fixes.

Use tests you haven't seen. A retaken test scores high because you remember the answers.

1. Review within a day, while you still remember what you were thinking.
2. Go through every miss, and every right answer you guessed.
3. Tag each one with its domain and skill. The eight domains and their question counts are on our November scores page.
4. Write one line on why: didn't know the rule, misread the question, ran out of time, or a slip. Each needs a different fix.
5. For "didn't know," learn the rule, then do 10 questions on just that skill.
6. For "ran out of time," use the pacing table below on the next timed module.
7. Redo every logged question two or three days later, without the explanation.

• Reading and Writing modules run in a set order: Craft and Structure, Information and Ideas, Standard English Conventions, then Expression of Ideas. The grammar and transition questions near the end are short reads, so don't let one hard passage early on eat their time.
• Within each group, questions go from easier to harder, per the test specifications. A hard question at the end of a group is normal, not a sign you're doing badly.
• A graphing calculator is built into Bluebook for the whole Math section. Practice on the free Desmos calculator, the same one Bluebook embeds, according to College Board's Bluebook tools page.
• Mark and move on. Bluebook lets you flag a question and come back before the module ends.
• Never leave a blank. College Board's own score guide says guessing beats leaving a question empty.

From College Board's what to bring page. Exam setup in Bluebook opens 1 to 5 days before the test, so November 30 to December 4.

• Your testing device, fully charged, with Bluebook installed and exam setup done.
• Your admission ticket from Bluebook. Printed is preferred; a phone works, but it gets collected.
• A physical photo ID with your full legal name exactly as it appears on the admission ticket.
• Pencils or pens for scratch work, and your College Board username and password.
• Optional: an approved calculator, a charger or battery pack, a watch without an alarm, and a snack and drink for the break.
• Leave behind: smartwatches, fitness trackers and any other device you'd bring into the room.
• On the morning: close and reopen Bluebook to check for messages and test center changes.

• Ten days: start at Day 1 anyway and cut Days 3 to 6. Both practice tests and their review days stay.
• One week: one practice test, one review day, then Days 11 to 14.
• A few days: skip new practice tests. Redo the questions you've already missed, set up Bluebook and sleep.

Ashore builds this kind of plan from your own results. The free starting check takes about 15 minutes, finds the question types costing you points and schedules each day up to December 5.