Learn the trap, beat the test.

Most SAT prep teaches you content you mostly already know. Project 1600 teaches you something the test actually charges money to hide: every wrong answer on the SAT is engineered. Distractors aren't random — they're built to match a specific, predictable misread. Learn the patterns and the test gets quieter.

The three colors

Every question in the bank is read through one system. It's the same system used in the Project 1600 videos.

• Yellow — the claim. What the passage or question actually establishes. This is the evidence you are allowed to build on. Nothing more.
• Red — the trap. The single distractor designed to feel right. It usually overshoots the evidence, reverses a relationship, or answers a slightly different question.
• Green — the answer & the lesson. The correct choice, plus the one transferable rule that question teaches. The lesson is the part you keep.

How to use the bank

1. Pick a section and difficulty. Reading & Writing or Math, then easy, medium, or hard. Start where you're losing points.
2. Commit to an answer first. Don't peek. The breakdown only teaches you something if you've already made the choice — right or wrong.
3. Read the trap, not just the answer. Knowing why A is right is worth little. Knowing why D was built to look right is the whole game.
4. Bank the lesson. Each question ends with one green lesson card. That sentence is the pattern — it shows up again and again across the test.

Who's behind it

Project 1600 is built by two students who scored 1590 and 1570 — close enough to perfect to know the test cold, recent enough to remember exactly where it tried to trip us up. The bank is free and grows over time. New traps get added regularly.