How to use this site
How much of it is enough, how the practice works, and how to build a routine around it.
How much to practice a day
A rough rhythm to aim for, based on how far off the test is and where the student is starting from. It is a suggestion, not a prescription — the schedule you keep beats the one you plan.
Leave it blank if you do not have one yet.
Add a test date and we will suggest a rhythm to aim for. Without one, the useful habit is simply a short session on most days — a set you finish beats a set you abandon.
Add a test date above and we will point at the pass that covers it. Until then, all three are below.
- Sprint Pass$49 one-time
6 weeks — one test cycle
- Core Season Pass$129 one-time
September through January — ~5 months
- Early Access Pass$219 one-time
Up to 12 months — summer start
Two things these numbers cannot know: how the student is actually finding it, and what else is in the week. Both are better guides than the figure above. If a session is going badly, stopping early costs nothing.
Start here
The shortest path from signing in to answering a question is three taps.
- Signing in lands you on Overview, which suggests the section to practice next and has a Start a set button that goes straight into it. To choose for yourself, open Mastery — in the side rail on a computer, or the bar along the bottom of the screen on a phone.
- Pick a mode. Free Practice is the gentlest first step: no clock, and it tells you whether each answer was right before moving on.
- Pick a category, then a section, and the first question loads straight away.
Want to see the questions before you buy a pass? 14 of them, free and with no account, are on the Try it free page.
What you practice
7 sections, in two families. Every one of them is available in both free and timed practice.
Figural
4 sectionsShapes, patterns, and spatial logic.
Verbal
3 sectionsWords, meaning, and relationships between them.
Every section has its own timed sets, its own score report, and its own difficulty rating that moves as your child works.
Signed in, this page names all 7 and walks through what each one puts on screen and what it is testing. The 14 free questions below cover every one of them.
Practice, Mastery and Challenges
Mastery is not a mode of its own — it is the page you choose a mode from. All three are live.
Free Practice
One question at a time, with no timer. Each answer is graded the moment you submit it, with an explanation, and the next question is chosen from your skill rating and whatever is due for review.
Untimed · graded as you go · moves your rating
Timed Section Practice
A full set under one section clock, the way the real thing runs. You can move between questions freely and change answers; nothing is marked until the set ends, either because you finished it or because the clock did. Questions left blank are graded as unanswered.
Timed · graded all at once at the end · moves your rating
Full Practice Test
Every section in one sitting, each under its own clock, with a short break between them — about an hour and a half end to end. The order is shuffled, and once a section's clock runs out you cannot go back to it. Sit one when you want to know how the whole thing feels, not to learn a section.
Timed · every section · moves your rating
Your skill rating only moves while you are signed in. It rises and falls against the difficulty of the individual question, so a hard question answered right is worth more than an easy one — and inside a timed set the answers are graded in order, each against the rating the one before it left behind.
Challenges is not a fourth mode — it is a weekly goal you opt into from the same navigation, shared with a small group matched on how much everyone has been practicing. Whatever you practice counts toward it automatically. Challenge points are their own thing: they do not move your rating and they do not affect the leaderboard.
Reading your results
Every timed set ends on a results page, and it is worth more than the score at the top of it.
- The score and the count. How many you got right, out of how many you attempted, out of how many there were. A gap between attempted and total is a pacing problem, not an accuracy one, and they are fixed differently.
- Average time per question. Read it next to the score. Fast and wrong means slow down; slow and right means the accuracy is already there and the clock is the thing to work on.
- The rating change. One set moves it a little. It is a running estimate of difficulty you can handle, not a grade, and it is expected to wobble.
- The question breakdown. Every question, expandable, with the explanation and the answer you gave. This is the part that actually teaches — a wrong answer you understand is worth more than five right ones.
- The review queue. Questions you missed come back on a schedule, spaced further apart each time you get them right. Free Practice is what serves them, which is the reason to keep doing a little of it between timed sets.
Practicing as a guest? None of this is kept — there is no history, no review queue and no rating until you sign in.
Everything above lives under Mastery.
See the questions first
14 sample questions, no account needed — the fastest way to tell whether any of this matches what your student needs.