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author: molly kiefer

molly kiefer

molly is one of magoosh’s content creators. she designs magoosh’s graphic assets, manages our youtube channels and podcasts, and contributes to the magoosh high school blog.

since 2014, molly has tutored high school and college students preparing for the sat, gre, and lsat. she began her tutoring journey while in undergrad, helping her fellow students master math, computer programming, spanish, english, and philosophy.

molly graduated from lewis & clark college with a b.a. in philosophy, and she continues to study ethics to this day. an artist at heart, molly loves blogging, making art, taking long walks and serving as personal agent to her cat, who is more popular on instagram than she is.

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  • new sat vocabulary

    the new sat is all about context. this means that the old sat rapid-fire vocab questions in the reading section are gone! instead of choosing from 5 very different vocabulary words to fill in the blank of a single standalone sentence, vocabulary questions are now nestled in the passages, along with other comprehension questions.

  • new sat reading: great global conversation and u.s. founding documents

    with the new sat’s push towards real-world reading skills, historical documents like dr. martin luther king, jr.’s speeches, frederick douglass’ writings, and the gettysburg address will appear in the sat reading section.

  • sat writing multiple choice strategies, part 2: grammar and mechanics

    in this second post on multiple choice strategies for sat writing, we take a look at the technical grammar questions and how you can eliminate wrong answers and find the right one!