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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 permutations and combinations practice questions

    if you’ve read the combination and permutation posts, have a go at the following questions. these combinations/permutations questions are about as hard as any combinations or permutations questions you could see test day. don’t forget to use the dash method! 1. sally owns five different blouses. if she cannot wear the same blouse on two…

  • sat passage inference questions

    inference questions are a tricky bunch. we have to choose the answer that can best be supported by information in the passage. the trick is not falling prey to those answer choices that are somewhat correct, but go a little beyond the information in the passage. questions typically try to trick us in a variety…

  • illogical comparisons on the sat writing section

    you’ve most likely heard the phrase never compare apples to oranges. this is definitely true on sat writing section. so if an answer choice compares two unlike things, then it is incorrect.   for instance, look at the following sentence: mike’s test score was better than sally. in this example, we are comparing mike’s test…