Up Your Score (65 page)

Good luck,

Larry, Manek, Paul, Michael, JaJa

P.S. You do know what the word
lamia
means, don’t you?

We’ll look this one up for you. According to
The American Heritage Dictionary,
it’s “a monster represented as a serpent with the head and breasts of a woman; reputed to prey upon humans and suck the blood of children.” Sweet dreams!

Larry Berger

Larry Berger is the CEO of Wireless Generation (
www.wgen.net
), an educational software company. He is also finishing his dissertation for a doctoral degree in English so as to enhance his performance on the SAT critical reading section. He has written two other books:
I Will Sing Life,
a book about children and poetry, and
Tray Gourmet: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria
. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. At Yale he codirected the Children in Crisis Big Sibling Program and the Books giving Book Drive. He expands to three times his normal size when placed in water.

Michael Colton

Michael Colton is a writer and comedian who appears regularly on
Best Week Ever
and other VH1 shows. He cowrote the film
The Comebacks
as well as scripts for Warner Brothers, Disney, New Line, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. He is featured on the DVD releases of
Beverly Hills 90210
and
Melrose Place
, but you probably already knew that. Before moving to L.A., he coedited the Web magazine Modern Humorist, and before that he was a staff writer for
The Washington Post.
He has also written for
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Cosmopolitan,
and
Salon.
He graduated from Harvard University where he wrote for the
Lampoon
and penned a fake gossip column for the
Crimson.
Check out
www.coltonaboud.com
for more info and pretty pictures of doves.

Manek Mistry

Manek Mistry grew up in Ithaca, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1990, with a degree in biology. He then switched course and spent the next three years at Cornell Law School, receiving a JD in 1993. Now that he’s out in the real world (after 20 long years of schooling, heading in many different directions), he’s realized that the only thing he really wants to do is write. Of course, he knew that in first grade, too. He’s had short stories published in a number of literary journals and (like everyone else in the world) is working on his first novel. No, really, he’s going to finish it someday. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Paul Rossi

Since graduating (with distinction) from Cornell University, Paul Rossi has traveled to several cities, searching for permanent employment. In the process, he has discovered that the street value of his education in French literature and nineteenth-century European history is not easily convertible into U.S. currency. Currently he is living in San Francisco, writing experimental fiction and (yes) poetry while trying to keep his houseplants from dying on him. His friends consider him to be a fine and peace-loving citizen.

JaJa Liao

JaJa Liao was born in the bustling, booming city of Taipei but soon moved to the small, quiet town of Florence, South Carolina. She returned to Taipei for two and a half years, but ended up moving back to Florence in fifth grade, and there she stayed through the end of high school. At a young age, she fell in love with the culture and history of the homeland of Tchaikovsky, Anna Chapman, and the founder of Chatroulette: Russia. Greatly inspired by figures such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacqueline du Pré, and Mario Testino, she can often be found practicing cello and spending time (very productively!) on Facebook. A huge TV fanatic, her favorite shows include
Modern Family, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, Skins
(the UK version),
How I Met Your Mother,
and
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
. She attends Yale University.

Attention high schoolers in the classes of 2014 and 2015:
The search is on for the next guest editor of
Up Your Score
! Are you a culturally savvy and articulate student who used
Up Your Score
to achieve a perfect (or near-perfect) SAT score? Are you interested in fame, fortune, and the rest of the prodigious perks that go along with revising and promoting the next edition of the book? Then we want to hear from you! You’ll find the application at
upyourscore.com
. For more information, write to [email protected] and mention
Up Your Score
in the subject line before September 15, 2013.

Copyright © 2012 by Larry Berger, Michael Colton, Manek Mistry, Paul Rossi
All rights reserved.
Interior illustrations: Chris Kalb
Cover art: John Ritter
Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
225 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014-4381
eISBN 9780761171287

SAT questions selected from the following publications of the College Entrance Examination Board:
5 SAT
s (1981);
6 SAT
s (1982);
10 SAT
s (1983, 1986, 1990). Reprinted by permission of the Educational Testing Service, the copyright owner of the test questions.

Permission to reprint the SAT material does not constitute review or endorsement by the Educational Testing Service or the College Board of this publication as a whole or of any other testing information it may contain.

SAT is the registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which has not endorsed this publication.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:
You Can Call Me Al
by Paul Simon © 1986 Paul Simon.