Not another course. A system that makes Khan, Magoosh, UWorld — or your $80/hr tutor — about 3× more efficient. Drill only the questions you actually missed. Stop studying the stuff you already know.
“Use ChatGPT to study for the ACT” is not a study plan.the whole pitch · in one sentence
This is.
Jennie Slade, Soft Tech founder. Built with input from a top ACT tutor and an AI-tools expert. Fact-checked against the 2026 Enhanced ACT structure. Aligned with Dunlosky 2013, Roediger & Karpicke 2006, and Cepeda 2008 on retrieval practice + distributed practice.
You’re not behind. The test changed in 2026 — not your kid.
If you’re reading this at 11pm with a calendar in one tab and a test date in the other, the Kit is built for that moment.
← pattern showed up on Q4, Q11, Q18.
This is what the Mistake Engine builds. Pencil. Spiral page. Question numbers down the left. Cryptic notes on what each one tested. Margin annotations when the same trap shows up twice.
Three weeks in, the page looks like this. By week five, three patterns dominate. By week eight, those three patterns are mostly gone. That’s how the score moves.
A real ACT prep session — the exact same hour, the only difference is whether you opened a chat cold or ran the Kit’s workflow.
Generic plan. No memory of what the student missed. No drilling on actual weak spots. By next practice test, the same 11 grammar questions are still wrong.
Specific pattern. Targeted drill. The next practice test shows the gain.
Same hour. Better hour.
Not in 60 days. Not after the test. By the first Sunday you sit down with this Kit, you’ll have specific, measurable things in hand.
A real baseline score from one official full-length test, taken under strict timing.
The 3 AI tools (Claude + ChatGPT + NotebookLM) set up — copy-paste primer + project knowledge filled.
Your top 3 named weak patterns — surfaced by NotebookLM from your scored test.
Three 25-min Mistake Engine drills on those exact patterns — logged + retested.
One timed section retake. A measurable shift on the patterns you drilled.
An audio overview from your mistakes. Listen on the way to school the rest of the week.
25 minutes. A notebook. The ACT book. One AI window. The Kit doesn’t replace your study — it makes it land.
Stop using AI tools interchangeably. The Kit shows you exactly when to use each one — and what to never use it for.
Long, careful reasoning. Error analysis. A persistent ACT Tutor Project that remembers your student across chats (Claude Memory, free). Best feedback on writing.
Voice tutoring in the car. Study Mode for Socratic walk-throughs (free). Scheduled Tasks for Sunday review. Canvas for essay editing.
One uploaded test becomes an audio podcast (Brief, Critique, or Debate), a study guide, a quiz, a mind map, and flashcards — grounded in your sources.
Every ACT question is engineered to make at least one of these look right. Once you can name the trap, you stop fooling yourself.
Whoever opens this Kit gets instructions written for them, in plain language, with prompts they can copy.
25 minutes a day, then you’re done. Voice-mode drills in the car so you don’t have to sit at a desk. A reset for the night before a test. One rule: try the problem yourself first — AI is the tutor, not the answer key.
How to run this Kit in a prep class. Differentiate by baseline score. Give individualized feedback at scale using NotebookLM. The academic-integrity conversation, scripted.
The five things that actually help — and the five that backfire. What to spend money on. The weekly AI prompt that tells you if your kid is on track without nagging.
Testing yourself + spacing it out. Everything else — highlighting, rereading, watching videos — is low-yield. AI doesn’t change the science. It just makes the diagnosis fast. The actual work of missing and re-attempting stays effortful, on purpose. That’s the part that builds the score.
If you bought each piece as its own course, it adds up. Today, you get all of it for the cost of one ACT tutoring half-hour.
Includes a 4-page printable checklist — weekly rhythm, trap library, test-week countdown, morning-of pacing card. preview the checklist →
The Kit isn’t built to replace official materials — it’s built to make them 3× more efficient.
| Option | Price | Personalized to your mistakes |
|---|---|---|
| Khan Academy ACT | free | no |
| Magoosh Premium | $129/yr | no — generic Qs |
| UWorld QBank | $99–249 | no — same Qs for all |
| Princeton Review Online | $299+ | no — pre-recorded |
| Private ACT tutor | $80–200/hr | yes |
| Acely AI ACT tutor | $49–149/mo | yes |
| The ACT Prep Kit | $27 once | yes |
The honest pitch: use this alongside Khan + an official practice book. The Kit makes whichever course you already own work 3× harder.
Your parent didn’t buy you another course. They bought you 25 minutes a day instead of 3 hours.
No worksheets. No videos to half-watch. You upload the test you just took, the AI tells you the exact pattern you keep missing, you drill it for 25 minutes, you go live your life. The score moves because you’re drilling the 11 questions you actually get wrong — not the 200 you already know.
open the Kit. start with section 2. — j.
5 kids. 2 currently in the test years.
I’m a mom of five. Two of mine are in the test years right now. I built the Mistake Engine, the prompts, the printable checklist, the whole system for my own kids first — then realized every parent I knew was asking me the same question.
I don’t teach test prep for a living. I built the thing I needed for the kids in my own house. That’s the entire pitch.
— Jennie
Build the three tools. Run the Mistake Engine for two weeks. If by then it hasn’t changed how you study — email me the word refund and I’ll send your $27 back same-day. No form. No “are you sure.” No back-and-forth. I want it to work. If it doesn’t, I don’t want your money.
— Jennie
No. Every core workflow runs on the free tier of all three tools. If you already pay for Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus, the Kit flags where that helps — but free is genuinely enough to raise the score. (Updates included if Anthropic/OpenAI/Google rename features — the workflow still applies.)
Those teach you the test. The Kit teaches you a meta-system for using AI to study what you got wrong — on top of whatever course or question bank you’re already using. Khan is free + official; UWorld is the gold standard for question banks. The Kit makes both about 3× more efficient because it converts every wrong answer into a targeted drill instead of letting them pile up in a notebook. Includes a teacher chapter for running the Kit in a class.
No. The Kit has a 30-day “Crunch Mode” plan specifically for four-week timelines, with an expanding spacing schedule on your top 3 weakest patterns. The error log and Mistake Engine produce measurable gains even over 4 weeks.
Yes. Written specifically for the Enhanced ACT — correct section counts (7 Science passages including 1 unscored field-test), correct scoring (composite = English + Math + Reading averaged; Science feeds the STEM score, not composite). Optional Science + Writing addressed with guidance on whether to sit for them based on your college list.
Password-protected web guide. Works on phone, laptop, tablet. The 4-page printable checklist is a separate one-click print/PDF download. You’ll get the access link the second you check out — bookmark it.
Buy it. Read it in one sitting. Build the three tools. Watch what happens on the next practice test.
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