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author: nadira berman

nadira berman
as a summer marketing intern, nadira is excited to help high schoolers prepare for the sat and act. as a freshman at the university of pennsylvania, she is considering studying economics. in her free time, she reports for the school newspaper and styles photo shoots for the school’s fashion magazine. besides fashion and journalism, her passions include bagels, smoothies and netflix.

  • 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…