What we cover, and what we don't

Every product page tells you what's included. This one tells you what isn't, because that's the part you can't work out from a feature list.

What USD 79 buys

The 95 in that last row matches the real test: 30 English Language Skills questions, 30 Reading and 35 Mathematics. Every explanation names the competency it comes from, which is possible here because the competencies are Section 82 of the Twenty-Eighth Edition and Rule 6A-4.0021 incorporates them by reference. We can quote the rule. Most subjects don't allow that.

The five things we don't do

The first row is the one that costs us sales and it's the first row deliberately. The essay has the lowest published first-attempt pass rate of the four subtests at 64%, it's scored by at least two qualified raters whose scores sum to a passing total of 6, and no automated product can do that job. Competitors who offer marked essays are offering something we're not.

Which of our numbers are ours

• The readiness target. It's ours, measured against our own mock papers, per subtest. It sits above the highest published cut of at most 70% so that hitting it clears every subtest with headroom on a harder version. It is not a pass mark and we never blend the three subtests into one figure
• The compound first-attempt rate. FLDOE publishes four separate pass rates and we multiply them, which assumes the four results are independent. That's a simplification, and it's why we say roughly a quarter rather than a decimal
• The weighting inside a subtest. FLDOE publishes 30, 30 and 35 questions per subtest and nothing below that, so where our lessons weight one competency above another, that split is derived from the number of skills the rule states and is not a published weight
• Minutes per question. Ours, by dividing the published minutes by the published counts

Everything else on this site comes from Rule 6A-4.0021, from Section 82, from the Test Structure document, from the Maximum Percentages table or from the 2025 Annual Administration and Technical Report. Where a page uses a figure of ours, it says so on that page.

The reason you might not need us at all

Rule 6A-4.0021(12) accepts qualifying GRE, SAT, ACT and CLT scores in place of these subtests, one subtest at a time. An SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score of 560 covers three of the four. The table of every score the rule accepts sits in the licensing cluster and it's the page we'd send a friend to first.

We put it high on the site rather than in a footnote. A prep site that hides the exemption is a prep site that has decided its own margin matters more than your position, and you should be able to tell the difference by how early you were told.

Who this is a bad purchase for

Three groups, plainly. Anyone whose alternative score already covers all four subtests. Anyone whose only problem is the essay. And anyone sitting everything inside a fortnight who'd be buying eleven months they won't open.

Anyone rebuilding Mathematics, or working through four separately registered subtests over a few months, is the reader this was built for. That's a narrower claim than most products make and we'd rather make the narrow one.