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author: todd shively

todd shively
todd shively is an ancient graduate of purdue university, where he changed his mind so many times that he finished with a major in english and a minor in math. he has taught high school in three different states and currently teaches in scotland, where he lives with his family. in his spare time he bakes his own sourdough bread and tries to work those carbs off doing crossfit.

  • “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…