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author: susanna langholm

susanna langholm
susanna holds a ba in education & liberal studies from smith college and has spent the better part of her college and post-graduate years helping students achieve success both in and outside of the classroom. most recently, susanna served as the assistant director for a tutoring franchise catering to college-bound exam prep students, learning a thing or two about the act in the process. when she’s not navigating the test-taking waters for the sake of her students, susanna can be found reading, writing on her education blog, skiing, or planning a future filled with international travel – her favorite (but most expensive) hobby.

  • “oblivious to” and “oblivious of” sat idioms for the critical reading section

    do you know your sat idioms? here is one you definitely do not want to be unmindful of. first though, take a hack at the following question and see if you can answer it correctly.   the crowd remained oblivious of the fire, and only moved out of the way when a               b                  c they…

  • sat geometry strategy: plugging in numbers

    a great strategy on the sat is plugging  in our own numbers. many students forget this and instead try to set up ugly algebraic equations (while some have a knack for this, for the rest of us it is easier to think in 1, 2, 3, then in x, y, z). other times students think…

  • top five confusing sat words

    with thousands of words to memorize, the sat often leads to students to jumble up words in their heads. it’s hard to separate the most common sat words from the no-shows on test day. and it’s hardly their faults—the english language is consists of many words that either look and/or sound very similar. see if…