Two Month SAT Study Schedule

Two months is a reasonable timeframe for comprehensive SAT preparation, allowing you to thoroughly explore all the modules on the Magoosh dashboard. This period is long enough to reinforce your understanding of the material and practice effectively while being short enough to keep your study routine focused and impactful. Now, if you’ve landed on this page but, in fact, have more or less time to devote to SAT prep, we do have other schedule options to check out. But, if you’re right where you want to be, let’s get to it!

Time commitment

Yes, this is a demanding schedule, especially if you intend to watch all the lessons and do all the associated practice and quizzes. To successfully complete it in two months, you can expect to dedicate 5 days each week with a 6th day on practice test weeks. Each session will require around two hours of study, but the daily commitment can vary significantly based on your individual strengths and goals for score improvement. Tailoring your study sessions to meet your needs is crucial. For example, if you’re pretty busy during the week, and have limited time to devote to SAT study, you can change things up: Do less work during the week and have 1-2 longer study sessions on the weekends.

Make it your own

This schedule is designed with flexibility in mind. As mentioned, it’s intended to cover a whole lot of content in a relatively short timeframe. However, how much time you devote to each study session and how much of the content you cover really comes down to whether or not it will benefit your individual study needs. You are welcome to skip around the modules or skim through lessons that cover material you already know or that don’t suit your goal needs. For example:

If you’re stronger in math, you might choose to spend extra time honing your verbal skills through additional practice and review.
Conversely, if your reading and writing skills are stronger, consider supplementing your practice with more math-focused work.
If a module is full of lessons on topics you’re comfortable with, skip that module’s lessons but still do the quizzes and any associated practice. That way you can catch any unexpected weaknesses.
If you aren’t aiming for an incredibly high score, you don’t need to spend a lot (or any) time on lessons or practice for the most difficult, less frequently tested concepts, i.e. Advanced Topics in Math.
If you already have an above average score and are aiming to push into the highest percentiles, you don’t need to spend a lot (or any) time on intro or fundamental concepts–you’ve likely already mastered these. Prioritize the more difficult questions and spend considerable time reviewing and analyzing the questions you’re missing.

How to use this schedule

Consider it like a living document. As you move through the schedule, feel free to adjust your focus based on your performance in practice tests and quizzes. It’s essential to monitor your progress and adapt your study plan to maximize your growth.

Review is essential

You”ll notice that we’ve estimated quite a bit of time for each quiz and practice set, and that’s because we really want you to devote considerable time to review.

After you work through a set of questions, be sure that, for any question you missed, or got right but feel shaky on or took too long to solve, you make note of the content and question type and carefully read the answer explanation. Ideally, you’ll keep a digital document or journal where you can jot down the question type and why you missed it. This is a crucial step in determining whether any patterns emerge in the content or question types that are challenges for you.

Materials & Resources

Magoosh SAT Prep

That’s us! Our SAT Prep includes lessons and questions that you will work through, thereby increasing your SAT familiarity. Bonus! Magoosh’s digital format mimics what you’ll see on test day. You’ll need a Magoosh account to work through this 2-month schedule. Not ready to commit yet? No worries! We’ve got you covered with a Free 1-Week Trial of the Magoosh product 😄

And, if you happen to prefer studying on your phone, our SAT Test Prep App makes studying on the go easy for both iPhone and Android users.

Official Digital SAT Study Resources

To get as close as possible to the real SAT experience, we highly recommend the full-length practice exams on Bluebook, the College Board’s online testing platform. These four practice tests let you explore the interface, format, and scoring of the digital exam. Bonus! they’re totally free!

Khan Academy Official SAT Practice (Optional)

If you are hankering for additional practice, the partnership between The College Board and Khan Academy includes lessons and practice to help you understand the content tested on the digital SAT.

Magoosh’s Daily Two-Month Schedule

Week One

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Let’s kick things off with where you need to go in your Magoosh Account, and that’s Guided Practice. To get there, you need to select the Reading & Writing or Math link at the top of the Dashboard. Once you click either of those section options, you’ll see a box with your current stats for that section. Under that box, you’ll see two options: Guided Practice or Custom Practice. Select Guided Practice. That’s the default. Only select Custom Practice when directed to do so.

Math Module: Introduction to SAT Math
Math Section Intro
Student-Produced Response Questions
Number Sense
Quiz
The Use and Abuse of Formulas
Learn from Your Mistakes
Follow Through on Question
Quiz
Reading & Writing Module: Introduction + Strategies
Reading & Writing Section Intro
Active Reading
How to Approach the Question – Part 1
How Not to Approach the Question
Reading & Writing Module: Wrong Answer Choices
Wrong Answers – Part 1
Wrong Answers – Part 2
Choosing between Two Answers
Elimination Trick
Practice

Total Estimated Time: 122 minutes

Remember, the estimated time will vary depending on the rate at which you watch the lessons, whether you’ve skipped any lessons, and how long it takes you to complete and review the quiz and practice questions.

Two Month SAT Study Schedule

Time commitment

Make it your own

How to use this schedule

Review is essential

Materials & Resources

Magoosh SAT Prep

Official Digital SAT Study Resources

Khan Academy Official SAT Practice (Optional)

Magoosh’s Daily Two-Month Schedule

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