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37 lessons in 9 units, about 38 h 20 min of reading and core practice. Each lesson ends with a quick check.
Unit 1
The single 30-minute Issue essay. Covers decoding the prompt and its specific instructions, building a nuanced position with compelling reasons and examples, organising the response under time pressure, and writing precisely without a spellchecker.
4 lessons · 3 h 55 min of study · ≈11% of the test
Unit 2
Roughly half of Verbal. Covers reading a sentence or short passage for its logic, predicting the missing meaning, and matching it among demanding vocabulary: one- to three-blank Text Completions and pick-two Sentence Equivalence.
5 lessons · 6 h 10 min of study · ≈23% of the test
Unit 3
Roughly half of Verbal. Covers short and long academic passages, main idea, structure, detail, inference, application, author attitude, multiple-answer and select-in-passage formats, and short argument paragraphs.
5 lessons · 5 h 50 min of study · ≈21% of the test
Unit 4
Integers and their properties, fractions and decimals, exponents and roots, percents, ratios and rates, and sequences. The most frequently tested Quant content, often inside Quantitative Comparison.
6 lessons · 5 h 30 min of study · ≈12% of the test
Unit 5
Algebraic expressions, linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, functions, translation of word problems, and coordinate geometry.
5 lessons · 5 h 20 min of study · ≈11% of the test
Unit 6
Lines and angles, polygons, triangles, circles and three-dimensional figures: area, perimeter, volume, the Pythagorean theorem and angle measure. Proofs are not tested.
4 lessons · 3 h 30 min of study · ≈7% of the test
Unit 7
Descriptive statistics, interpretation of tables and graphs (including Data Interpretation sets), counting methods, probability, and distributions including the normal distribution. Inferential statistics is not tested.
5 lessons · 5 h 30 min of study · ≈11% of the test
Unit 8
Format-specific skills that decide top Quant scores: Quantitative Comparison logic and traps, multiple-answer questions, Numeric Entry rules and smart use of the on-screen calculator.
2 lessons · 1 h 55 min of study · ≈3% of the test
Unit 9
How section-level adaptation, timing, review tools and scoring rules should shape your approach across the 1 h 58 min test.
1 lesson · 40 min of study · ≈1% of the test
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Analytical Writing: Analyze an Issue · Lesson 1 of 4
How Issue prompts are built (statement + one of six instruction variants) and how to turn a prompt into a clear, qualified, insightful thesis that answers the exact instructions.
1 h of study≈3% of the test
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