magoosh blog | high school
start magoosh sat or magoosh act prep today!

author: debbie schwartz

debbie schwartz
debbie schwartz is the founder of road2college, a website with unbiased information on college admissions and financing. she likes to focus on helping families understand how to use data to better research and target colleges that are more affordable. debbie has an mba and worked in financial services before turning her attention to the college admissions process. besides college admissions and numbers, she’s a longtime yogini and loves tennis!

  • sat grammar: semicolons

    semicolons are the bane of many a student on the sat. as soon as they see one they think run-on sentence or verbiage. the sat definitely plays on this fear by including many correct answers in the identifying the error portion of the writing section. below, i’ve included a few useful tips and examples to…

  • idioms on the sat: writing practice questions

    oh those sat idioms – the bane of every sat test taker. yes, it is true.  even those who have an ear for the proper idioms often find the rest of the writing section a breeze. while there is no one way to master idioms, a combination of approaches should help. one approach is practice…

  • make sat vocab fun

      mnemonics the word lambaste means to criticize someone harshly. by the time you finish this post you’ll probably have forgotten that. now, what if i tell you to imagine somebody who always criticizes you (i can already picture my high school p.e. teacher). i want you to imagine that that person’s head has been…