Students – what test prep materials do you use?

Submitted by Quizmaster on September 30, 2025
We are considering making a vocabulary builder that would be useful for students who are prepping for the SAT/GRE.

It would be a simple spaced repetition app where you spend 10-15 minutes a day, and within a couple years, you'd know more words than 99% of the population.

But I'm wondering, would you pay $5/month for an app like this?

Do any JetPunk users pay for test prep?

11 Comments
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Level 63
Sep 30, 2025
Would that be general or for premium users only?
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Level 16
Sep 30, 2025
It's an app, so I don't believe it would be a JetPunk feature
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Level ∞
Sep 30, 2025
It would be $5/month. We'd probably have a limited free version too.

The crazy thing is that it actually makes sense to spend a TON of money on SAT test prep.

Why?

Because good schools have good financial aid. And bad schools don't. The people who get stuck with debt they can't pay are the ones who go to some random liberal arts college. Spending $10k to improve your SAT by 200 points is probably worth it in financial aid alone.

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Level 72
Oct 1, 2025
Yes but good schools cost more so you get more aid but still pay the same price usually.
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Level ∞
Oct 1, 2025
That's not true.

Sure, community college is cheap.

But there are tons of bad private schools that charge nearly as much as Harvard and don't have offsetting financial aid.

If your parents are middle class or below, you will generally pay very little tuition when attending an elite institution.

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Level 16
Sep 30, 2025
Depends on the features, but I think five dollars a month would be worth it. It could also be useful for things outside of the SAT, or even for fun as well.

I would be more likely to buy if it was somewhat similar to Duolingo, or at least with the gamification features. A simple game (even just adding a sudden death game, for example) would go a long way in me using it more

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Level 51
Sep 30, 2025
I don't know what a sat/gre is because thats probably a Murica thing and i live in Scotland but I cant pay for it because I'm broke and I have no dolla dollas

But it does sound interesting

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Level 78
Oct 1, 2025
Personally, I’m sure I could use some greater vocabulary, but I’m certainly outside your target demographic here seeing as I took the SAT and even GRE years ago now.

But I’m not sure whether you’ll be able to sell many people on $5/month just with vocab alone. You’d probably want more things like practice quantitative problems for the GRE or practice whatever problems on the SAT (I forget).

Anyway, another idea I had is that with how much international attraction you get on JetPunk, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to add the TOEFL into the mix. I know tons of international students that have gotten somewhat set back in their graduate studies because of a poor TOEFL score. It probably wouldn’t entail too much more than just listing it as one of your advertised exams.

I know this isn’t what you were looking for in your post, but hopefully this is at least somewhat insightful.

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Level ∞
Oct 1, 2025
Helpful, thanks. But if we made a comprehensive test preparation tool, we'd have to charge more like $100/month.
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Level 56
Oct 1, 2025
I wouldnt pay for it

But i would maybe use the limited free version if there is one

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Level 78
Oct 4, 2025
That's an idea I would like if I were to be studying for the SAT but I probably wouldn't pay for it personally.