<p>For those high scorers who have already been through the test, what will help the vocabulary or knowledge of roots? Will just memorizing from a list help?</p>
<p>Some helpful advice I have received is to look up any unknown words that you come across (in reading etc.) and keep a little notebook of these words and their definitions. It's a good habit to use a dictionary often, and you'd be surprised how many words you can learn from just looking them up a few times.</p>
<p>Memorizing from a list does help, but you want to leave yourself plenty of time to do so before the test. I suggest Sparknotes' 250-word list -- I've learned words from it that appeared on the SAT, and the words on the lsit are not ridiculously obscure or anything. If you have more time, maybe try the 1000-word list from Sparknotes. For a more basic list, RocketReview has a 300ish-word list that is helpful as well (I think it has been posted in the forum). Good luck!</p>
<p>Memorizing roots is a huge bonus, but if you just increase the amount of books/articles you actually read (nothing like sports illustrated or Time though), your vocab will inevitably increase.</p>
<p>Hey- I just started studying vocabulary a few weeks ago (I had a strong one to start with) and I just learn 5-10 new words a day from <a href="http://www.testprepreview.com/vocabulary.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.testprepreview.com/vocabulary.htm</a> and I just quiz myself (accumatively) each Saturday, its been a great system. If you don't have that much time I suggest "Vovcabulary Cartoons", their basically mneomics (spelling?) and you can learn about 20 a day easily.</p>
<p>actually though i didnt do well in the december test,, i am looking forward to the january tests coz i feel i did pretty well. as for the vocab, i had two weeks.. i read around 2000 words ..from sparknotes, and from the new barrons (this seems like its available only in india and nepal) in the first week..underlined the words i found difficult..for the first three days of the second weeek i went through all the words i had marked once a day..and on the fourth day i went through all of the words.. and the day before the exams i again relooked at the marked words.. i felt pretty confident about my vocab,, and i happen to remember most of them as for their meanings but i cant use them smoothly in conversations and writings..but i found this a pretty good method for remembering the words.. i didnt have to guess on any sentence completion question in the sat..good luck.</p>
<p>You know what the best vocabulary builder is?</p>
<p>A BOOK. Just read...</p>
<p>The Testmaster list is the best. Does anyone know if testmaster releases individual lists for individual tests? ie, special hitwords on the march SAT?</p>
<p>hm......Testmast3er List..........haven't heard of it after Jan SAT which had terrible vocabulary. someone claims that most came from the test master word list, anyway, may be that's the case, but still, sparknotes and rr are pretty standard and easy to follow/remember.</p>
<p>I've also found out that books like Wordsmart from Princeton Review helps a fair amount. You should go check that out.</p>
<p>QUOTE "You know what the best vocabulary builder is?</p>
<p>A BOOK. Just read..."</p>
<p>That takes years though. It might be helpful if we were 12.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, the Barron's SAT book has the most comprehensive vocabulary list at about 5,000 words. It's also very good. If you know all of the words on that list, you should not get any vocab questions wrong on any SAT test administration. I got through about 800 words a day and finished the thing in a week.</p>
<p>i seriously think reading harry potter has helped with my vocabulary since most (all?) of the spells and alot of other stuff in those books have latin roots that relate to what they do/ what they are. lol.</p>
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<p>Are you kidding me? :eek:</p>
<p>o_O!...........</p>
<p>Are you kidding me?
^my reaction exactly! :)</p>
<p>that would be spending less than two minutes on each word, without sleeping. if you sleep, that drops your time down to less than eighty seconds for each word....</p>
<p>Two minutes per word? More like two seconds per word. Most of those words are not very hard so I skimmed the list to find the ones I actually did not know. Otherwise, like andreaaa.. said, it would be impossible to do hundreds of words a day.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me?
^^ my reaction too!
unlesss ur superman or sumthin</p>
<p>Read a lot of books. Or the newspaper. Or tabloid magazines, you'll be surprised at what little gems you can find in those.</p>
<p>keyword= LITTLE.
why waste your time with newspapers & magazines..
just use sparknotes.</p>