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United States
AP, SAT, ACT and state exams — plus the GPA that quietly matters more than any of them.
The US has no national curriculum and no national school-leaving exam. What it has instead is a stack of separate things admissions offices look at: a four-year GPA, Advanced Placement results, an admissions test, and in some states a graduation exam. They run on different clocks, which is the real difficulty.
Start free →Exam boards and qualifications in United States
Qualification
AP (Advanced Placement)
College-level courses examined each May, scored 1 to 5, worth credit at many universities.
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Entrance exam
SAT
The digital, adaptive college admissions test, scored 400 to 1600.
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Entrance exam
ACT
The alternative US admissions test, scored 1 to 36, with a faster pace than the SAT.
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Qualification
New York Regents
New York's state examinations, required for a Regents Diploma and sat in January, June and August.
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How the US system is shaped
Middle school
Grades 6 to 8. Course placement decisions made here — particularly in maths — shape which AP courses are reachable later.
High school
Grades 9 to 12. Every semester grade feeds the cumulative GPA, which is why consistency beats late heroics in the US system.
Advanced Placement
College-level courses examined each May. Scores can earn college credit and are read as evidence of rigour by admissions.
The calendar you are actually planning against
- Academic year
- Late August or early September to late May or June, in two semesters.
- Exam season
- AP exams in the first two weeks of May; SAT and ACT run on fixed dates across the year.
- University entry
- Most applications go through the Common App, with early decision and early action deadlines in the autumn and regular decision in January. Colleges read the GPA, course rigour, test scores where required, essays and recommendations together — no single number decides it.
- Boards covered
- AP (Advanced Placement), SAT, ACT, New York Regents
Eight teachers, one subscription
They are AI, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is real is the work they produce against US requirements.
Daniel · Study planner
Builds the week backwards from the real timetable. AP exams in the first two weeks of May; SAT and ACT run on fixed dates across the year. Sessions go into your calendar as real events, not onto a wall chart.
Sarah · Subject tutor
Explains what you are stuck on at the level your qualification actually assesses, then checks you have understood it.
Margaret · Librarian
Finds sources, summarises them at three depths, and formats citations in MLA, APA, Chicago or Harvard.
Tommy · Quizzer
Turns what you have understood into spaced-repetition cards and brings them back until you can recall them cold.
Eleanor · Writing coach
Reviews essay structure and argument, and tells you where a marker would lose the thread.
Charles · Citation checker
Verifies every in-text citation resolves to a real entry in your bibliography.
Penny · Proofreader
Catches grammar, spelling and clarity problems without flattening your voice.
Sam · Accountability
Tells you honestly when the plan has stopped being realistic, early enough to change it.
United States: fair questions
Can it help with college application essays?
With structure, argument and clarity, yes — Eleanor tells you where a reader loses the thread and what your essay is actually claiming. She will not write it for you, and you should not want her to: admissions essays are read for voice, and a generic one is worse than an imperfect honest one.
How do I balance GPA work against AP prep?
By recognising they compete for the same hours in April and May. Daniel schedules both explicitly instead of letting AP revision quietly eat coursework time, which is how students end up with a 5 on the exam and a B in the class.
Do you support test prep for the SAT and ACT?
Yes — Tommy drills question types with spaced repetition, which suits standardised tests well because the question formats repeat. Sarah works through the reasoning on anything you keep getting wrong.
Built around the US calendar.
Free for seven days, no credit card. Tell us your board and your exam dates, and the plan follows United States's timetable rather than a generic one.
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