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SAT Bootcamp — October Test

October 2026 · Weekends

SAT Bootcamp — October Test

About the course

Seven weekends, sixteen students, one test date. This is a sprint aimed squarely at the October administration, and everything in it is organised around the calendar rather than around the syllabus.

Every student submits an official practice test score before session one. I use it to build a ranked fix-list per student in the first week, and that list drives which drills each of you gets. Nobody spends a Saturday on material they already own.

The weekend shape

  1. Saturday morning: two hours on the highest-value math archetypes for the group

  2. Saturday afternoon: an individual drill block, targeted from your own fix-list

  3. Sunday morning: two hours on reading and writing, taught as pattern recognition rather than as English

  4. Sunday afternoon: a timed section under exam conditions, marked and returned before the day ends

Six full tests

One per weekend from week two onward, sat at test-day start time in the correct format. Score trend is charted and shared with you — not with the group. Watching your own line move is worth more than any amount of encouragement, and watching someone else's is worth nothing at all.

What a 130-point gain actually looks like

Roughly forty points from content you genuinely did not know. Roughly fifty from pattern recognition, meaning you knew it but did not see it fast enough. Roughly forty from pacing and from not falling for designed wrong answers.

That distribution is why this bootcamp spends more time on recognition and pacing than on teaching mathematics. Most students arrive knowing more than their score suggests.

  • Fourteen live sessions across seven weekends, recorded

  • Six full-length adaptive practice tests with per-module analytics

  • A personal fix-list, rebuilt after every test

  • The distractor catalogue — every common wrong-answer design and the mistake it targets

  • A test-week plan for the final seven days, which is mostly about doing less


Enrolment for this cohort closed on 12 August and the sessions are now running. The next bootcamp runs for the March 2027 test; join the waiting list from the courses page and you will hear when enrolment opens.

In this course you will be able to

Raise your score by a measured amount — the median gain across our last four cohorts was 130 points
Recognise every recurring archetype in both sections within seconds
Hold a per-module pacing plan and finish each one with time for a second pass
Turn a practice test into a ranked action list instead of a score you feel bad about
Use elimination deliberately, so a guess is between two options rather than four
Walk into the October test having already sat six full-length timed papers
Know precisely which twenty questions to skip first if you fall behind

Prerequisite

Registered for the October 2026 SAT, or planning a retake within six months
One official practice test completed before the first session, with the score submitted at enrolment
Algebra I complete. Algebra II strongly recommended for the advanced-math units
Available live at 10:00 AM Mountain Time on Saturdays and Sundays for seven weekends
Ten to twelve hours a week including sessions — this is an intensive and it is priced and paced as one

Topics covered

Diagnostic analysis: turning one practice test into a ranked list of what to fixThe adaptive module and what a weak first module actually costsHeart of Algebra archetypes and their standard disguisesProblem solving and data analysis: rates, ratios, percentages and unit conversionPassport to advanced math: quadratics, polynomials and function transformationGeometry and trigonometry: circles, triangles, radians and the formulas worth memorisingReading and writing: the information-and-ideas question familyCraft and structure, including vocabulary in contextExpression of ideas: transitions and rhetorical synthesisStandard English conventions: the eight rules that generate most questionsBack-solving and plugging in numbers, and choosing between them by inspectionCalculator strategy — the six question types where it winsPacing per module, and the deliberate skipGuessing strategy when elimination has got you to two choicesTest-day logistics, timing and managing the gap between modulesPost-test review: what to do in the three days before a retake
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