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author: anika manzoor

anika manzoor
as one of magoosh’s blog editors, anika relies on her nearly 20 years in education and youth leadership spaces to produce empowering, student-centered content across magoosh’s blogs. anika has a ba from grinnell college and an mpp from harvard university. her experience includes serving two years as a fulbright english teaching assistant in malaysia, an sat tutor for kaplan, and currently, as the executive director of youth activism project, a nonprofit that she co-founded when she was 12 years old. anika’s work has been featured in the washington post, the boston globe, and yahoo! money. she has also spoken at panels and given presentations at new york university and harvard university. if you’d like to keep up with anika, you can check out her linkedin, instagram, twitter, and personal website.

  • sat math friday: extreme triangles

    every now and then, the sat uses a property of triangles that throws most for a loop. i like to call these triangles “extreme triangles”. so let’s imagine an isosceles right triangle. remove the hypotenuse and you’ll get two line segments that meet at a right angle. now, take the vertical segment and pull it…

  • how positive thinking benefits test-takers

    it´s hard not to imagine worst-case scenarios as test day looms ever closer, but did you know this could actually harm your test score? being pessimistic is not only worse for your health in the long run, but it also results in less productivity and more stress. there is a key difference between pessimism and…

  • sat test day walk through

    so, you’ve spent tons of time studying for the sat, registered for the test, but then it hits you—what do you actually do the 24 hours before the test? stay up all night cramming last minute? chug three cups of coffee? get there 5 minutes before the test is supposed to start? welcome to your…