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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 permutations and combinations practice questions

    if you’ve read the combination and permutation posts, have a go at the following questions. these combinations/permutations questions are about as hard as any combinations or permutations questions you could see test day. don’t forget to use the dash method! 1. sally owns five different blouses. if she cannot wear the same blouse on two…

  • sat passage inference questions

    inference questions are a tricky bunch. we have to choose the answer that can best be supported by information in the passage. the trick is not falling prey to those answer choices that are somewhat correct, but go a little beyond the information in the passage. questions typically try to trick us in a variety…

  • illogical comparisons on the sat writing section

    you’ve most likely heard the phrase never compare apples to oranges. this is definitely true on sat writing section. so if an answer choice compares two unlike things, then it is incorrect.   for instance, look at the following sentence: mike’s test score was better than sally. in this example, we are comparing mike’s test…