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drew evans
drew is passionate about education, having previously founded an sat prep and academic tutoring company. he honed his social media and content marketing skills at creativelive before bringing his social marketing acumen to admitsee. drew grew up in philadelphia but has also lived in the cities of chicago, los angeles, seattle, and san francisco. he has a b.a. from the university of pennsylvania, where he studied history and political science. fun fact: drew is also a photographer and a musician.

  • sat geometry: angle diagram questions

    there will be a number of times on your sat when you’ll be asked to find the measurement of an angle or angles, but you’ll be given a picture with only a bit of information on it. in these questions, the sat makers are testing you on your ability to move information around a figure.…

  • inference questions on sat reading comprehension

    here’s a good sat vocabulary word for you: infer. if you don’t already know what it means, go look it up. i’ll wait here. there’s a decent chance that it’ll show up on your sat, and not even in a sentence completion. it might show up in a sat reading comprehension question about a passage.…

  • staying focused on long sat reading passages

    note: this post has been updated to reflect changes to the sat beginning in march 2016 (aka the “new” sat). have you ever found yourself reading the same sentence or paragraph over and over? it doesn’t have to be when you’re going through something as dry as an sat reading passage; it might even happen…