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author: mark thomas

mark thomas
mark helps build the look and feel of the magoosh product and brand through visual design. he graduated from umass amherst with a bfa in studio art. when he’s not designing things, he can be found painting, critiquing restaurant menu fonts, exploring the west coast, drowning his demons in a pool of bourbon, and watching the celtics.

  • sat multiple choice strategy: picking the low-hanging fruit

    for the most part, questions on the sat are put in a pretty specific order. with the exception of the passage-based critical reading, each group of questions of the same type is ordered from easiest to hardest. so what does that mean for you when you take your sat?   taking each sat section backwards…

  • two weeks before your sat

    what should you do if you have about two weeks left until your test day? there’s a lot to cover, and there’s not much time to do it in, so you’re going to have to be smart about how you tackle sat prep at this point. if you haven’t been studying the test at all…

  • how to find the wrong answers in sat reading comprehension questions

    when an sat writer creates wrong answers for a question, they draw from the same material that they made the correct answer out of. they reference the same phrases and ideas that the best answer does, but they twist the logic or facts to the extent that they become straight-up wrong. now, put yourself in…