When the current form of the SAT was first introduced in 2015, Khan Academy entered into a partnership with The College Board, the makers of the SAT, with the mission of providing more affordable test prep to everyone.īefore the first administration of the test on March 5th, 2016, The College Board released Practice Tests 1 through 4 on Khan Academy so that the first test takers would have some idea of what to expect.Īt that time, those 4 practice tests were the only real source of guidance. If you want the highest-quality graphics and videos in the SAT prep game, consider PrepScholar. For a thorough review of PrepScholar for both the ACT and SAT, check out my PrepScholar Review.Khan Academy has 8 SAT practice tests available at the time of this post.
PrepScholar, in addition to a plethora of practice tests and questions and rich graphic and video instruction, also includes plenty of test prep strategy Khan Academy’s content-heavy prep approach is lacking in the strategy department. PrepScholar comes with the option (at a higher cost, of course) of enlisting the aid of an experienced one-on-one tutor who either got a perfect or a 99 th-percentile score on the test themselves. Khan Academy has an app for both Apple and Android PrepScholar does not. 
PrepScholar offers a money-back guarantee for a 160+ point increase on the SAT. Khan Academy is free PrepScholar’s cost ranges from $400-$600 depending on the course type. Here are a few of the key differences between PrepScholar and Khan Academy: Among the many tests they prepare students for is the SAT/ACT. PrepScholar is one of the most recognizable names in the test prep industry. There aren’t any frills or elaborate graphics that you might expect to find on other prep sites like Princeton Review or PrepScholar. The Khan Academy SAT prep platform is notably minimalist and the interface is intuitive. With so many participants, it must be doing something right. Its user base now approaches 100 million, with a large proportion of those using Khan Academy’s free services to prep for the SAT. In my view, those are still its standout features. Khan Academy gained notoriety in the prep game primarily for its trademark, bread-and-butter short video lessons, which many users found to be effective learning tools. On its own, the “all-content, no-strategy” approach is simply a losing formula. Most importantly, as we enumerated in the “cons” section above, strategy is non-existent in the Khan Academy prep course. But that affirmative answer comes with important caveats. In a short word, yes – Khan Academy is useful for SAT prep, and I would recommend including it in your arsenal without hesitation.
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