Percentages
Successive 20% discounts do not equal a 40% discount, yet many students fall for that trap and lose points. Percentages on the SAT reward precision across realistic scenarios.
1. Easy - Quiz 1
Strengthen your percentage fundamentals: find the part, the whole, or the percent in straightforward calculations and everyday scenarios.
5 questions
average score: 80% (all users)
2. Medium - Quiz 1
What happens when percentages stack? Tackle successive changes, discounts with tax, and problems where you need to work backward to the original value.
5 questions
average score: 60% (all users)
3. Hard - Quiz 1
These multi-layered percentage problems require you to chain operations, reverse-engineer original values, and think carefully about what each percent applies to.
5 questions
average score: 60% (all users)
Expect questions on percent change, compound percentage applications, determining what percent one number is of another, and reversing a percentage to find the starting value. Translate "percent" to "/100" immediately, apply changes step-by-step instead of just adding them, and test your answer by working backward to catch common errors.