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author: kim lifton

kim lifton
kim lifton is president of wow writing workshop, a leading expert on the college application essay. kim is a former journalist who has made it her mission to know everything about college admissions. she speaks with senior admissions officers from the nation’s most selective colleges almost every day. wow works directly with students, and trains school counselors, english teachers and independent educational consultants who want to improve their essay-coaching skills.

  • 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…