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author: rita neumann

rita neumann
rita brings 18 years of tutoring, mentoring, and test prep experience to her role as senior content marketing manager. rita earned her ba from uc san diego and her ma from ucsd’s school of global policy studies. over the years, rita has tutored all subjects in the ca middle and high school curricula, and coached students studying for the gre, sat, and act—she even coauthored act prep by magoosh. rita has written dozens of blog posts related to test prep, and even some articles for fellow marketers, such as conversion optimization for your blog. connect with rita on linkedin!

  • making accurate inferences on the act science test

    easy act science test questions ask you what the passage or data tables explicitly say. more challenging questions require you to draw your own conclusions based on what is implied in the passages. mark up the passages as you read, paying close attention to the topic, experiment set-ups, given results, author’s point of view, and…

  • the mathematical mean vs. average speed on act math

    not all averages are created equal on the act math test. what can be somewhat confusing is that the word “average” on the act math can refer to two separate concepts: the arithmetic mean, and the average speed. it’s important not to confuse the two on the test day, as they require different formulas to…

  • sat reading comprehension – parallel reasoning

    a really difficult type of question on the sat has you take a scenario discussed in the passage and choose which of five hypothetical scenarios it is closest to. as you probably guessed, these five hypothetical scenarios make up the five answer choices. the passage below is already quite tricky, and the question below it…