In 2017, roughly 1.8 million high school students took the SAT and a little over 2 million sat the ACT. Together, the tests form one of the most widely recognized college readiness assessment systems in the world. To make it into most American colleges and universities, it is a step on which every learner must fall down, or else, o’erleap. Students must demonstrate knowledge of subjects spanning from Shakespeare to Trigonometry, and some programs require additional SAT subject tests. The socioeconomic status of learners tends to reflect in their scores, but everyone needs to pull out all the stops to reach their full potential. And to do that, learners must prepare.