Readiness is a band with a reason. It tells you where you stand on the exam you chose, names the one thing that would move it most, and gives Texas law its own band. Readiness is not a prediction of your exam result, and it is not an exam score.
Only your first attempt on each question counts: the diagnostic, practice and mock questions. Lesson checks, flashcards, re-attempts and mistake-bank retries never count, so a memorised pool cannot inflate readiness.
For every section of the exam’s blueprint, Prep99 takes the share of first-seen questions you answered correctly, weighted toward the recent ones, and pulls it toward chance (25%, four options) by a prior worth 10 questions. A section you have not practised yet counts as guessing.
Each answer’s weight halves every 21 days, so older evidence fades and the prior pulls back. Fading pauses for a section with no unseen questions left: an exhausted section is frozen, not decayed, and the reason line says so.
Section estimates combine by the official scored counts of the exam you chose: Texas Life & Health has 13 sections weighted 100 general and 30 Texas law; Texas Life Agent has 6 sections weighted 50 and 30. The same answers give a different reading under each exam, and changing exam recomputes everything under the other blueprint.
Mock questions are first-seen evidence like any other, unscored pretest slots included; they are left out only of the mock’s own result. A recent full mock under exam conditions, above the bar, is the gate for Ready; a paused mock never satisfies it. The bar is Prep99’s own, a raw count of scored questions correct: 104 of 130 on the Texas Life & Health format, 64 of 80 on Texas Life Agent. It is not the exam’s passing score: Texas reports a scaled score, and the number of correct answers it takes is not published and varies by form.
Behind the band is a score out of 100, shown only in the detail view. It is never a percent, never a probability, and never a predicted exam score. The Texas-law reading is the same computation over the Texas sections alone.
| Band | Score | Also required |
|---|---|---|
| Starting out | 0 to 39 | |
| Building | 40 to 64 | |
| On track | 65 to 79, or higher with a Ready gate unmet | |
| Ready | 80 and above | Every section has at least 8 first-seen questions; the Texas-law reading is 80 or above; a full mock under exam conditions above the bar (104 of 130, or 64 of 80) within the last 14 days. |
The Texas-law band uses the same ranges, with the coverage gate over the Texas sections and no mock gate.
Once you reach Ready, you keep it until your score falls below 77, your last full mock above the bar is more than 14 days old, or Texas law falls back from Ready (its score below 77); the Texas-law band holds the same way. Reaching Ready takes a score of 80; the small margin to keep it stops the band flickering on a single answer.
Under the band, one line names the single biggest lever: an unmet gate or the section with the largest weight and gap. For example: “Needs work in Texas law”, “Health provisions: not started”, “Take a full mock to confirm”, or “Your last full mock is older than the window”.
Chance-level priors punish unpractised sections; only first attempts count; evidence fades; Ready needs coverage everywhere, Texas law at the same bar, and a recent timed mock. A band that is slow to reach Ready is the intended behaviour: Ready means your first-attempt results across the whole blueprint, Texas law included, and a recent full mock are at the level we set for exam day.
Readiness is not a prediction of your exam result, and it is not an exam score. Texas reports one scaled score for the whole exam. Prep99 never shows a pass probability, a predicted score, or a percent readiness.
The app asks, after your exam date, whether you passed; the answer is voluntary and anonymous, and it records the band you held at the time. With Pearson VUE’s published results as the public baseline, the thresholds are re-tuned. They are never loosened without a recorded decision, and no outcome statistic is published without a file behind it.
Exam facts and their sources, with verified-on dates, are on the sources page.