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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.

  • sat video: how to best use two hours of study time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyuajd1nmys studying for the sat in two hour increments it’s not easy to slip two hours of sat prep into a busy schedule. so when you do, you want to use it as effectively as possible. for many that means intensely devouring a chapter in an sat book. for others, it means learning a bunch…

  • act science: passage types

    there are three distinct passage types on the act science test: data representation, research summaries, and conflicting viewpoints. here’s how the numbers break down on most tests. in the past, there always used to be 3 data representation passages, 3 research summaries passages, and 1 conflicting viewpoints passage on each test (7 passages total). however,…

  • tips for surviving college lecture classes

    class size can be one of the biggest differences between high school and college. i was always so intimidated when i heard about huge lectures full of hundreds of students. i always wondered how i could possibly learn anything in that type of environment. if you also feel like you may struggle with this typical…