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Exam strategy, study systems, and product notes from the Lab45 team.

How We Design ESAT-Style Questions

A practical look at how we choose what to test, write fair distractors, review each question and improve it using student feedback.

We have seen IB 45 scorers average 5 points on the ESAT. We have seen students who performed well enough on th...

Cambridge does not release ESAT past papers. There is no official practice material from the actual exam.For m...

Time on the ESAT doesn't disappear all at once. It goes question by question, thirty seconds at a time, in dec...

Most prep questions are written forwards. You start with a concept, you construct a scenario around it, you ch...

Most students finish a mock, check their score, look at the questions they got wrong, and move on. Then they s...