magoosh blog | high school
start magoosh sat or magoosh act prep today!

author: peter poer

peter poer
peter helps make sure magoosh students have the best possible content. a proud arizona wildcat and teach for america alum, he worked as an instructional coach before getting an mba at berkeley’s haas school of business. he is passionate about student achievement and educational equity. also prime numbers. peter enjoys cooking, running (slowly), and going to bed comically early.

  • parallel structure — sat grammar fundamentals

    parallelism is important on the sat. it will help you employ commas more efficiently and understand how sentences are constructed.

  • senior year: the nostalgia

    throughout my junior year and the summer leading up to my senior year, i was flooded with advice on my senior year of high school. the most common advice that was given to me was to cherish every moment of my senior year, because it would be over sooner than expected. so that’s what i…

  • sat sentence structure — grammar fundamentals

    the most important, if not the most fundamental, thing you need to understand from a grammatical standpoint, is how to construct sentences. indeed, to truly understand punctuation you’ll need to apply the knowledge contained below.