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author: minh nguyen

minh nguyen
minh’s passion for helping students succeed grew during his time as a career counselor at the university of california, irvine. now, he’s helping students all over the world by spilling sat/act secrets through blog posts on magoosh. when he’s not busy tutoring or writing, he enjoys playing guitar, traveling, and talking about himself in third-person.

  • how hard is sat vocabulary, really?

    if you haven’t taken any practice sats or done much in the way of prep, you might not realize what, exactly, you’re getting into. sat vocab is totally nuts. there will be words on the test that you’ve never seen or heard. i mean it. oh, you read a lot? and you think you have…

  • is the sat an iq test?

    despite the size of the test prep industry, there’s this lingering myth that the sat is an iq test, so studying for it is futile. the official response to that from the test prep giants (kaplan, princeton, barron’s…) is a pretty unanimous “hogwash!” or maybe it’s “horsefeathers!” it’s something barn related, in any case. but…

  • how hard is sat writing?

    high schoolers across the country need a strong score on the sat to boost their college applications. for some students, the writing section worries them the most. with 30% of the writing score based on a timed essay and 70% based on multiple-choice writing questions, students wonder, “how hard is the sat writing? will this…