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MMRose
Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:38:23 +0000

Yes collegeboard is the official provider of the SAT. They have 8 practice tests available here:

satsuite.collegeboard.org

Full-Length SAT Practice Tests – SAT Suite | College Board

Find full-length practice tests on Bluebook™ as well as downloadable linear (nonadaptive) practice tests to help you prepare for the SAT.

Here’s the site for the ACT

ACT

Free ACT Test Prep | The ACT Test

Free online learning tool and test practice program designed to help students get their best score possible on the ACT test.

You should download one of SAT tests and take it as a timed test, and do the same for one ACT test. That leaves plenty more for studying from and assessing your progress. They all test the same material. In fact, for the SAT at least, they were all “real” tests given at some point in the past.

Don’t think of this first sample test as a test that you pass or fail. Instead, think of it as a metric that helps you figure out if there are any “holes” in your education while there is still plenty of time to address that. So this first test will be an assessment, not a real test. And you will take it at home as practice. As was mentioned above, don’t sign up for a real test at a testing site — that’s not what any of us are recommending!

And lots of people do this. My kids both did and I have helped others do this, and one of my sons is an SAT tutor and that’s what he recommends for starting because it helps establish a baseline.

Please see my post above about tips on using the practice tests efficiently.

Edited to clarify that although the sample tests all test the same material, they use different questions to do so, and that’s why it’s okay to use one test as a baseline and save others for additional practice and to Gauge progress.