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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.

  • how many practice sats should i take?

    although it’s indispensable for sat prep, the official sat study guide from the college board isn’t complete on its own… it really needs to be supplemented with more in depth lessons and explanations of questions. you can get that from us at magoosh (or elsewhere), along with a healthy dose of more personalized practice, which…

  • reading sat fiction passages

    on every sat, there’s one long fiction passage. it’s usually the longest individual reading passage on the test (which means about 75-100 lines). you might get a shorter fiction passage at only 50 or 60 lines long, but that’s less common. the sat likes relatively recent fiction, but it’s not unheard of to see something…

  • sat identifying sentence errors practice questions

    the questions below are examples of “identifying sentence error” questions, which show up in the long writing multiple choice section of the sat. there are 18 of this sat question type, altogether, out of a total of 49 scored writing multiple choice problems. while you do these practice questions, remember that you don’t need to…