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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 “identifying sentence error” writing multiple choice

    you get two writing multiple choice sections on the sat. one of those two is a short section—only ten minutes and 14 questions—and is made up entirely of improving sentence questions. the other one is longer and has all three types of writing multiple choice questions. that 25 minute section is the bulk of where…

  • sat math review: sequences

    you’ll probably get one or two questions about sequences on your sat. since they’re not a really big deal, don’t start your sat studies here. instead, spend some time on the bigger issues, like sat geometry and sat graphs. but if you’ve already mastered those, then it certainly doesn’t hurt to dig into the smaller…

  • number properties and factor trees on the sat

    sat math loves number properties almost as much as it loves triangles. of course, that’s actually a wide range of topics. number properties describe how integers can be broken down, combined, or worked with in different ways; exponent patterns, odds and evens, positives and negatives, and divisibility all fall under the number property umbrella, as…