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author: elliot hirsen

elliot hirsen
elliot works on magoosh’s products and curriculum making sure students have a great experience and get all the points they deserve. he’s a test prep pro with more than 10 years experience teaching, tutoring, developing courses, and writing explanations. elliot is a reformed rock climber bum who enjoys gardening, hiking, and pickin’ his guitar when he’s not working.

  • 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…