SAT prep by situation

Juniors starting out

You are in eleventh grade and have not sat the SAT yet.

What's actually different about your situation

Your constraint is that you have more time than you think and less than you will use well. The junior year window is wide enough for two sittings before senior deadlines, which means you can afford one attempt that goes badly. Almost nobody plans for that, and it is the single biggest advantage available to you.

The order to do it in

Sequence matters more than volume here. Doing step three first is the most common way this goes wrong.

Sit a full-length adaptive mock cold, before any preparation. The number is not the point; the error categories are.

Pick a target date in March or May. Working backwards from a date is what turns intention into a schedule.

Spend the first block on Module 1 accuracy, not on hard questions. Routing decides your ceiling before the hard questions ever arrive.

Leave August and October of senior year free as a retake window. If you don't need it, nothing is lost.

By what you're aiming at

Your goalStart here
A first real scoreWhen to start
Raise 100+ pointsScore jumps
Reach 1500+Chasing the top
National MeritMerit cutoffs
Scholarship moneyScore to dollars
Submit or withholdWhat's good

Start with a diagnostic, not a syllabus

A free full-length adaptive mock tells you which of the steps above is actually your bottleneck.