Course process

The method, and what we commit to when you finish it.

Most courses sell hours. This one is a process with five stages and a defined finish line, and the finish line is the point: if a student completes every required part of it and their official score has not moved, that is our failure to carry, not theirs. The conditions are set out in full further down this page — all of them, in the same type size as the promise.

01

Diagnose before teaching anything

27 questions, timed. It returns no score — it returns the skills losing you points, and now also how long each answer took. Right-but-slow and wrong-but-fast are different problems with different remedies, and a course that cannot tell them apart will treat a pace problem as a knowledge gap and waste a month on it.

02

Teach the rule, with a counter-example

Every rule is shown working and then shown failing. A rule asserted is a rule a student takes on trust and abandons under time pressure; a rule proved against a wrong version beside it is one they can apply to a question they have never seen.

03

Drill the decision until it is a reflex

1,855 drill items, one decision each. Thirty reps in three minutes rather than three full questions, because what fails on test day is rarely the knowledge — it is the hesitation. Reflexes are built by repetition at speed, not by careful practice.

04

Measure under the real clock

The exam gives 71 seconds a question in Reading & Writing and 95 in Math. Every practice set here is measured against that budget, and the practice tests route Module 2 by how Module 1 went, exactly as the adaptive exam does. Untimed accuracy is not evidence.

05

Repair what missed, on a widening schedule

Every miss enters your error log with the mistake named, and returns — at one day, three, a week, a fortnight — until you get it right under time twice running. Before the reveal, you say what went wrong in your own words. That one sentence is the most evidenced intervention in the whole literature on studying, and it costs one screen.

+120points, or you do not pay

The Completion Standard.

Complete every required part of the process below and sit the official exam. If your official score has not improved by at least 120 points over your baseline, we extend your access free until your next sitting — and refund the course fee in full if you would rather simply have your money back. You choose which.

We can commit to this because the app records the work. Completion is not a claim a student makes or a form they fill in; it is a checklist the course keeps itself, visible to you from the first day, with every box ticked by something you actually did.

What counts as completeAll six. The checklist in your account shows where you are against each one, from the day you start.
1
The baseline diagnosticSat in one sitting, timed, within your first week. This is the number the improvement is measured from — an official score from a previous sitting may be used instead, and is the better baseline if you have one.
2
Every required lesson for your targetThe course marks which sections are required for the score you are aiming at. All of them finished, with the end-of-section check passed.
3
1,200 drill repsAcross both sections, at or inside the pace budget. The count is in your account and ticks up as you work.
4
Six full-length practice testsTimed, complete, no pausing mid-module. Fewer than six and there is not enough evidence to say the method was tested.
5
Your error log cleared twiceEvery logged miss worked back to correct under time, twice over. This is the part students skip, and it is the part that moves a score.
6
Eighty per cent of your scheduled sessionsAcross the plan the course builds from your test date. It does not matter which days — weekends, evenings, four in a row and then a gap. The eighty per cent matters; the pattern does not.

Claim within 60 days of your official score's release, from the account page, with the score report attached. We check the checklist, and the checklist is the same one you have been watching all along — there is nothing to argue about after the fact, which is the entire reason it is kept in the open.

And plainly, what this is not
It is not a promise of a particular score.Nobody can promise you a 1500, and anyone who does is selling you something. What we can stand behind is that the method moves scores when it is actually followed — and that if you follow it and it does not, we should not keep your money.
It is conditional, and the conditions are real.Six requirements, all of them. A student who does half the course and sits the exam has not tested the method, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. This is why the conditions are on this page in full rather than in a footnote.
It is not a reason to start late.The commitment cannot create time. If you begin six weeks out with a 1,200-rep requirement ahead of you, the course will tell you — in writing, from the plan itself — that the target is not reachable in the weeks left. Read that when it appears.
It does not need the course to decide.Separately and unconditionally, the first fifteen days are refundable in full for any reason at all. Try it, decide it is not for you, and ask — no checklist, no questions. The fifteen-day terms, on the pricing page.
06

Why this order and not another

Each stage exists because the one before it is not enough.

Teaching before diagnosing wastes the first month

Two students sitting at 1280 are almost never there for the same reason. One is losing points to punctuation and reading too slowly; the other knows the rules and panics in Module 2. Put them through the same syllabus and one of them is working on a problem they do not have.

The diagnostic is free precisely because skipping it is the expensive mistake

Knowing a rule is not the same as using it in 71 seconds

Almost every student who stalls at 1400 can state the rules correctly when asked calmly. The gap between stating and applying under a clock is not closed by more explanation — it is closed by volume at speed, which is what the drills are and why they are one decision each.

Accuracy without pace reads as knowledge and behaves as a ceiling

Untimed practice measures the wrong thing

Score a practice section with no clock and you learn what a student could do with unlimited time, which is not a quantity the exam measures. Every set here is timed against the real budget, and the dashboard separates right-and-fast from right-and-slow because only one of those is finished.

The clock is part of the question, not part of the room

A mistake you read about is a mistake you repeat

Reading an explanation produces the feeling of learning and almost none of it. Saying what went wrong before the explanation appears, and then meeting the same mistake again a week later, is what makes it stop. That is the whole architecture of the error log.

The explanation lands on something, instead of washing over it
07

Questions about the process

The ones that decide whether this is for you.

Can I work only at weekends?

Yes, and a lot of students do. The requirement is eighty per cent of your scheduled sessions, not a particular rhythm — four hours on a Saturday counts exactly as much as four evenings. What does cost you is leaving a logged mistake unworked for a fortnight, because the point of the schedule is to meet the miss again while you still remember being wrong.

How long does the process take?

Ten to sixteen weeks at five or six focused hours a week, for most students starting between 1150 and 1350. Less time than that and the 1,200 reps become the binding constraint rather than the material. The plan does this arithmetic from your test date and tells you the answer on day one.

What if I am already at 1450?

Then the process changes shape rather than length. The required-lesson list shortens, the hard tier becomes most of the work, and the drills shift to pace rather than rules — because at 1450 the remaining fifty points are almost entirely timing and traps. The Completion Standard still applies, although 120 points from 1450 is a demanding thing to ask of a method, and you should read the next answer.

Does the 120 points apply from any starting point?

It applies as written from any baseline up to 1400. Above that, the honest position is that 120 points is most of the distance to the ceiling and we will tell you so before you buy rather than after you claim — ask us and we will give you the real number for your baseline in writing.

Who verifies the checklist?

The app, continuously, from your own activity — and you can see every box and its progress from the first day. We do not re-adjudicate it afterwards. If the checklist says complete, it is complete.

What if I miss a requirement by a little?

Write to us. A student at 1,150 reps out of 1,200 who has done everything else has obviously tested the method, and we are not going to hide behind fifty reps. The numbers exist to exclude people who did not do the course, not to catch people who did.

Start the process this week.

Pick a plan and the whole course opens on day one, checklist included. Or build a study plan first and see what the weeks to your test date actually allow — that takes two minutes and costs nothing.