Welcome to this section
Learning goal: understand how this playbook works and how to use it for about an hour a day, five days a week, for six weeks.
You only need to read this page once. After that, you will know exactly what to do every time you open the playbook.
What this playbook is
This is your personal field manual for the Digital SAT, Jaden. It was built for one student: you. It is a six-week program, and it works the way a director works, because that is how you already think. A director does not film a whole movie in one take. They break it into scenes, shoot a little every day, review the footage, and fix what did not work.
That is the whole method. Small scenes, daily takes, honest review. About an hour a day, five days a week.
What a "play" is
A play is a short, repeatable move you run when you recognize a certain kind of question. You do not have to be inspired on test day. You just have to recognize the situation and run the play you already practiced. The plays live in Reading and Writing Plays and Math Plays, and every play has its own practice set of eight questions that start easy and get harder.
Your weekly rhythm
| Days | What you do |
|---|---|
| 3 lesson days | Read one play a day, then run its practice set: Reading and Writing practice or Math practice. Every question explains itself after you answer. Week 1 is the gentle exception: its first lesson day is this page and the SAT Overview, not a play, as the play schedule below lays out. |
| 1 assessment day | Take that week's assessment: about an hour, 44 questions, instant results. |
| 1 review day | Dailies. Open your error log, review the week's misses, and fill in a reflection page. |
Your play schedule
Week 1 starts light: reading this page and the SAT Overview is your first lesson day, so that week has two plays instead of three. By the end of week 3 you will have read all eight plays once. In weeks 4 through 6 your error log picks the plays: reread the ones tied to your misses, at least one Reading and Writing and one Math each week.
| Week | Your three lesson days |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Day 1: read this page and the SAT Overview Day 2: Reading and Writing Play 1: The first read Day 3: Math Play 4: Pacing |
| Week 2 | Day 1: Reading and Writing Play 2: Evidence Day 2: Math Play 1: Multiple choice Day 3: Reading and Writing Play 3: Grammar |
| Week 3 | Day 1: Math Play 2: Word problems Day 2: Reading and Writing Play 4: Transitions Day 3: Math Play 3: Calculator |
| Weeks 4 to 6 | Your error log picks: reread the plays tied to your misses, at least one Reading and Writing and one Math each week. |
The six weeks, then Bluebook
There are six weekly assessments, and they climb gently in difficulty from week 1 to week 6, just like the real test rewards you with harder questions when you are doing well. When you finish week 6, you graduate from this playbook's practice to the real dress rehearsals: official full-length practice tests in Bluebook, the College Board app you will take the actual SAT in. The Resources page has everything you need for that stretch, all the way to test day on October 3.
What you need
- This playbook, on your phone or laptop. Assessment scores save on the device you use, so pick one and stick with it.
- A notebook for scratch work and for logging any Bluebook-test misses after week 6. Your weekly error log and reflections live on the site.
- The official Bluebook app for full practice tests after week 6. Links live in Resources.
A word from your coach
You are not behind, and you are not starting from zero. You already read closely, you already reason about stories, and math is a set of learnable moves, not a talent you were born without. An hour a day, five days a week, for six weeks is enough. Show up for the small sessions and the score takes care of itself.