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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.

  • how hard is sat vocabulary, really?

    if you haven’t taken any practice sats or done much in the way of prep, you might not realize what, exactly, you’re getting into. sat vocab is totally nuts. there will be words on the test that you’ve never seen or heard. i mean it. oh, you read a lot? and you think you have…

  • is the sat an iq test?

    despite the size of the test prep industry, there’s this lingering myth that the sat is an iq test, so studying for it is futile. the official response to that from the test prep giants (kaplan, princeton, barron’s…) is a pretty unanimous “hogwash!” or maybe it’s “horsefeathers!” it’s something barn related, in any case. but…

  • how hard is sat writing?

    high schoolers across the country need a strong score on the sat to boost their college applications. for some students, the writing section worries them the most. with 30% of the writing score based on a timed essay and 70% based on multiple-choice writing questions, students wonder, “how hard is the sat writing? will this…