Featured topic · Geometry & Trigonometry
Easy
Special Right Triangles — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
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SAT — August 2024 (Digital, US)
SAT — August 2024 (Digital, US)
A guide to high-yield math topics worth drilling ahead of tests like the SAT — August 2024 (Digital, US) sitting. Use it to find the study topic behind the kinds of questions you miss, and re-drill them.
SAT Math Fall 2024 8 featured topics
Every SAT Math sitting draws on the same published SAT Math skill taxonomy. The featured topics below are high-yield skills from that taxonomy; each links to its study page so you can immediately drill the underlying skill.
Most students who stall on a test do so because of a small handful of weak topics — typically two or three categories. The pattern in your wrong answers is more important than your raw score, so look at which topics trip you up, not just how many you miss.
Featured topics to drill
Featured topic · Problem-Solving & Data Analysis
Medium
Mean, Median and Mode — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Geometry & Trigonometry
Medium
Properties of Triangles — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Algebra
Hard
Distance, Rate and Time — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Problem-Solving & Data Analysis
Easy
Conditional Probability — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Geometry & Trigonometry
Medium
Right-Triangle Trigonometry — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Problem-Solving & Data Analysis
Medium
Standard Deviation and Spread — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Featured topic · Algebra
Hard
Linear Equations in One Variable — a high-yield skill for this test. If questions on it trip you up, review the topic page and re-attempt its practice problems.
Next steps
Pick your three weakest topics from the list above and work through their dedicated pages. After you can confidently solve every practice question on each topic page, sit another official practice test and compare your improvement.
Browse the full topic guide index for more test dates, or jump back to the SAT Math overview.