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author: christine pasetes

christine pasetes
christine is the editor of several magoosh blogs, including magoosh gre, lsat, and mcat. she holds a b.a. from san jose state university, where she specialized in editing, technical writing, and magazine publishing. before joining magoosh, christine spent 6 years in edtech working with national publishers and educators to produce digital content for university students and k-12 learners. her collaboration with cengage and national geographic learning won a codie award for best world language acquisition solution. she’s interested in user experiences and making accessible, engaging content for students at all stages of their study journeys. connect with christine on linkedin or medium!

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    developing a rich vocabulary has many benefits: you can better convey what you mean, you can command respect for your well-expressed ideas, and you can even appear more romantically appealing (there is even a term now for people who are attracted to intelligence.) if landing that job interview or that date are not on your…

  • new sat reading: the nonfiction passages

    after the literature passage on the new sat, you’ll see two history/social studies passages and two science passages–typically alternated. these passages should be approached a little differently than the fiction passage. here’s what you need to know:

  • new sat reading: words in context questions

    the old sat tested a lot of difficult vocabulary. no more. now the focus is on “high-utility academic words and phrases” which basically means words that are used in multiple subjects and genres and words that have multiple meanings.