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jessica ellis
jessica helps make the magoosh products engaging and effective study tools. she has over eight years of experience in education and curriculum design having earned her bs in science, technology and international affairs from georgetown and her master in mind, brain and education from harvard. when she is not thinking about product design, you will find her on the ski slopes!

  • sat vocab friday – harry potter book 2

    you may be the biggest harry potter fan ever, or you may have never read a single page of this saga of a boy wizard. i’m guessing, like 99% of people, you are somewhere in between. well, even if you are a big fan of the series, you may not have known that each of…

  • take two: what to do when taking the sat the second time around

    some students need a trial run to understand just how challenging the sat really is. taking the sat a second time is just fine, as long as you learn from past mistakes. ali sewalt, from nextstepu.com, is here with some helpful advice. when it comes to standardized testing like the sat & act, testing twice…

  • conquering right triangles & the pythagorean theorem on act math – part 2

    if you’ve read part 1 of the “conquering right triangles…” series, you’re ready to rock some more challenging act math questions with a quick “triangles” quiz! try each question on your own, then check your answer against the explanation! question #1: a right triangle with one length of 60 degrees has two leg lengths of…