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author: david recine

david recine
david is a test prep expert for magoosh toefl and ielts. additionally, he’s helped students with toeic, pet, fce, bulats, eiken, sat, act, gre, and gmat. david has a bs from the university of wisconsin-eau claire and an ma from the university of wisconsin-river falls. his work at magoosh has been cited in many scholarly articles, his master’s thesis is featured on the reading with pictures website, and he’s presented at the witesol (link to pdf) and nafsa conferences. david has taught k-12 esl in south korea as well as undergraduate english and mba-level business english at american universities. he has also trained english teachers in america, italy, and peru. come join david and the magoosh team on youtube, facebook, and instagram, or connect with him via linkedin!

  • key words in sat reading comprehension

    in spoken english, there’s a pattern of stressing syllables and words that makes a sort of rhythm. the sat reading comprehension doesn’t have any questions about that, exactly, but we can learn a bit from it. and why we stress those sounds has something to do with finding important information in sat reading comp. to…

  • sat geometry

    about a quarter of sat math problems need some geometry skills to be solved, and most of those ask you to use geometry knowledge alone. so you could say that getting all of the geometry questions right would earn you about 150 points on the test, although if you’re wondering how to calculate sat scores),…

  • taking a break from sat studying

    if you’re sitting down with a full-length sat practice test, then the breaks we’re talking about here don’t really apply. half the point of those practice tests is to build up your comfort with a test-like environment, and you don’t get to take a whole lot of breaks during your sat. in fact, you’ll only…