<p>I know that to score well on the SAT you need to have a rather extensive vocabulary. Does the ACT require you to have a wide vocabulary to do score high? Does the ACT vocabulary require less words than the SAT vocabulary?</p>
<p>First of all</p>
<p>There is no such thing as ACT Vocabulary. The english test is grammar and rhetoric skills. Significantly easier if you know your rules and have common sense.</p>
<p>Yes, you don’t really need vocab for the ACT. It’ll help for the reading section, but you don’t need to study lists and lists of words like you would for the SAT.</p>
<p>thanks LMU10 & Nava! I have mountains of SAT Prep books all of them with long lists of words that I need to know and I really not interested in learning hundreds of words for a test that I will never use again after the test. I’m so taking the ACT :)</p>
<p>No, you don’t need to waste your time memorizing and regurgitating definitions that the SAT requires. The ACT isn’t based on that same set of ideals that somehow memorizing crap has a relation to college-success.</p>