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author: elise gout

elise gout
elise writes articles for the magoosh sat blog to help teenagers during an exciting time in their lives. despite residing in southern california, where she attends san dieguito academy high school, she has no surfing abilities whatsoever; it’s actually rather sad. she is your typical senior high school girl who sword fights daily, and is pretty much convinced that bananas are a food sent from heaven. elise will attend columbia university next fall to study environmental science.

  • what is an sat subject test?

    most students already know that the sat reasoning test is awaiting them long before they make it to their junior/senior year. i know for me, the sat reasoning test was looming over my head since my first day of high school. but even as someone who had the sat reasoning in mind for so long,…

  • the best note taking tips

    good notes = good grades. and unfortunately, bad notes = bad grades. why? well, the better notes you take, the easier studying will be. and the easier and more efficient your studying is, the higher your test scores.

  • the point of sat paragraph correction

    the questions in sat paragraph correction deviate from the rest of sat writing. the sat throws out a big chunk of text, requiring you to mentally switch gears. rather than obsessing over the individual components of sentences and tweaking them (like in sentence correction and error id), you’re now looking at a whole piece of…