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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 subject-verb agreement quiz

    before you start, you may want to read the writing essentials subject-verb agreement post. if you feel you ‘got it’, then have a go at these five questions. they are not easy, so good luck!   1. the number of americans living in rural areas have decreased (a) to unprecedented levels, with (b)most farmers saying that their days (c)in…

  • sat math basics – triangles

    what you need to know about triangles on the sat is nowhere near as much as you probably learned in high school. remember law of cosines? exactly, most people do not. but the law of cosines, and just about every thing else from trigonometry, is not tested on the sat. ahh…i think i just heard…

  • sat reading comprehension question type: direct reference

    in the previous installments, we took apart a reading comprehension passage. the passage is of medium length, and you will usually get a couple of these on the sat. typically, passages of this length have no more than six questions. as this is a tutorial of sorts, i’ve decided to milk the passage for ten…