<p>Does Anyone think I can do Barrons 3500 words in two weeks considering i put like 3-4 hours everyday for it? Im bad at vocabulary. I really need to improve. If there is something else you suggest that i can get out of the 2 weeks before my june sat test.. that'd be great..</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>gotta believe in urself man...if u try hard enough...it's definitely possible</p>
<p>Work with roots. If you are learning thousands of words in a short time, you are likely to get them confused on the test day.</p>
<p>But I think you should try to get in whatever studying you can. I'm right with you, working hard for this SAT. I just started twelve hours a week of prep, with a tutor, so I can't miss any. That will go on for two weeks, until the 2 June SAT. What I think both of us need to keep in mind is that we should use this test to build for the October test date, and not expect phenomenally high results just because we worked really hard this last half-month. I took the March SAT and got a 720 CR and 800 W but a 560 maths. That twelve hours a week is ALL maths prep, but I know that for something I REALLY struggle in, two weeks won't be enough and I'll have to try again in October.</p>
<p>Be positive, but don't set expectations unreasonably high. If you do, you will be taking the actual SAT and get frustrated and nervous if questions over what you've been studying pop up that you just don't know. Try your hardest and do your best on the 2nd, but think of it as a chance do you best and to build.</p>
<p>If you worked for 4 hours a day, for 2 weeks with no breaks, you would have to learn 62.5 words per hour. That's over a word a minute and you have to remember them all! Now that's assuming you don't know any of the words, but since you said your bad with vocab, lets say you don't know 40 of the 62.5. This is being optimistic (as is 4 hours per day). </p>
<p>I think this plan would backfire... You would wear out to quickly and not make it to g. </p>
<p>Try Sparknotes 1000 words. That would be more practical and you could focus on other aspects of studying as well.</p>
<p>thanks guys.. i'll prolly just read the frequency list, hot list and prolly spark notes list.. Then i'll be alright..</p>
<p>for sentence completions.. i need vocabulary.. im actually alright at vocab.. i know a lot.. but i want to improve more so i dont go blank on em.. </p>
<p>for reading comp: anyone know what book they prepared from.. (like a really good book).. because im kinda ok at this.. but i need help on the type of questions.. they ask like:</p>
<p>author suggests this
author is inferring about this</p>
<p>and stuff like that.. anyone can help me?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>I think that memorizing the high frequency word list would suffice. It worked for me!</p>
<p>For reading comp: Buy a workbook and practice!!!!! As you take practice quizes, review all of your wrong answers and those that you weren't sure about. Over time, your skills will improve significantly. I would recommend Kaplan's Critical reading workbook. It has a ton of practice questions but (more importantly) it gives seriously in depth answer explinations and explains why each other answer is wrong. After doing a ton of those, the real test is much more straight forward. Or you could buy Barron's, which I hear is good, but I havn't used it. Can someone expand?</p>
<p>Lastly, make sure you follow up your practice with real, official Sats so you get used to what their like.</p>
<p>Hi JSmith7651,</p>
<p>One of my students once memorized 1100 words in a single day. (I had given him a full set of flash cards. He was also very, very smart). He got them all mixed up on the day of the test and did worse than he expected.</p>
<p>I didn't tell him to learn all those words, by the way! </p>
<p>I agree with the previous poster that learning the High-Frequency Words should be enough. Other than that, the best use of your time is to do all of the practice exams you can get your hands on, not to cram vocabulary. Anyone else on this forum want to back me up here? </p>
<p>(If you do ever want to learn a <em>lot</em> of words in a short period of time, it is absolutely <em>imperative</em>, 100% necessary, that you get yourself a pre-printed set of flash cards. If you are curious about this, ask me for more info and I will reply. But now is probably not the time.)</p>
<p>I agree. It wouldn't be too painful to learn the High-Frequency list, just make sure that you are practice Reading Comp a lot too. Seriously man, get a critical reading workbook.</p>
<p>Where are these infamous vocabulary lists that everyone keeps referring to? I'd like to take a look.</p>
<p>THIS HELPS- make a random list of words you see from a few practice tests. I had a sheet front and back and I studied for 10 days, before May SAT. 2 or 3 of the words came. Look at Rocket review's words, I took SAT twice and its words were there without fail, both times.</p>