<p>I use flashcards for both roots and vocab. Although some think that this will not be as beneficial as, say doing practice tests, I have a lot of time which I think will be otherwise wasted if I do not understand and memorize words. I use the Kaplan PSAT book lists for both my roots and vocab. My question now is that, when I take practice tests from the Official Study Guide, should I add the words unknown to me to my list of vocab to memorize, or is this a waste of time. I have taken 2 practice tests and have about 60 unknown words, so you can see it will take a lot of time to memorize all these. Is this effort worth it alongside the flashcards derived from the normal vocab lists?</p>
<p>Also, should I be worried I do not know most of the words in the thread "This is the best way to master Vocabulary."? </p>
<p>P.s. Sorry for the double post but I could not find the edit option for my post.</p>
<p>dude u should try to remeber words from mnemonics...check out my mnemonics thread and it mite help u. Also if u can add some words that would be gr8</p>
<p>Anyone else think what I'm doing will help? And should I go over the words in the "best way to master vocab" thread?</p>
<p>Continue to write the words you don't know as you take the practice tests, because chances are that you'll see those words again. To tell you the truth I did the same thing when I first started studying for SAT. Usually I looked at the "fill in the blanks" questions and picked out the unknown words. I still do this when I take the practice tests but there may be like 5 words I don't know.
Try to memorize those 60 words you got from practice tests. It won't take that much time. I've memorized more in just a couple of days. Write them down on flashcards, and memorize about 30 words a day. You don't really need to know the specific defenition of the roots, but having a general feeling helps. Like for example, the words with prefixes de- mostly have a negative meaning, and that sort of thing.
And one last thing, some time ago I found this word list online. Once in a while, when I take the practice tests, I come across few words that I learned from this list. I'll post the link below, because I think it's a good vocab list :)
<a href="http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.html</a>
hope this helps,</p>
<p>Ditto and try to increase your memorization speed and capacity as you go. For instance make it 50 a day after first 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input. I will keep on doing what I'm doing and I will try to memorize that list of words too. I think this is a good method as I have 2.5 months ahead of me before the psat and at least 5 months before the sat.</p>
<p>I write down over 100+ unknown words after any practice test. I was memorizing them along with Sparknotes 1000 Common Sat Words, but recently I lost interest in it. It's very boring.
Any hints? I'm taking the Oct test.</p>