<p>vocab flash cards. after i took it the second time, i used the flash cards and saw dozens of words that were on the test.</p>
<p>Anecdotal: there's a great vocab site called freerice dot com</p>
<p>Not sure if it would help with SSAT vocab, but performance is certainly tied to knowing your latin roots!</p>
<p>Baseballmom - Love free rice! Someone posted about it last month and we have ( both ) been visiting often.</p>
<p>However, I wish they had a link to the words in context. That would be an added benefit.</p>
<p>Merriam-Webster has a section for kids called The Daily Buzzword. They used to send it to your email address, now you have to go to their website and look it up. I like this website, because not only does it provide the definition of the word, it allows you to hear the pronounciation, the word is used in a sentence, and you are asked to answer a question about the word, either guessing its word origin, or choosing a synonym etc... Here's the link:</p>
<p>freerice is addicting!</p>
<p>Very nice JennyCraig ! Just saved to favorites!</p>
<p>Has anyone taken the Kaplan SSAT course?
I found the whole styuding from a book thing to be completely overwhelming.</p>
<p>I just did freerice with my kids. It cracked me up. They didn't know vilify so I asked them to think of a word that sounded like it. When prodded to "vile" they both said, "Oh! Malign!!" They are 11 and 12. Does anyone question why I want to get them out of their public school?!</p>
<p>it really did help me to study numerous books about the SSAT. In my personal opinion, the ACT is a lot easier and if you can take that test, you should. However cramming in multiple books about the SSAT in a month or two, actually really does help. In my first practice test, I bombed it (since I didn't study) but after I studied for a month, in my real test, I got into the 99th percentile! Amazingly, stress actually helped me. Practice tests rarely show you your real grade since you know in the back of your mind that it's not the real thing. However when you take the real thing, your grade probably will jump up a hundred points (varies for each person) automatically. :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the freerice words are "SAT words"? Some of them seem like they could be archaic.</p>
<p>Keylyme, I was thinking the same thing. I found myself digging way way back to memories of the Faerie Queen to get a few of them...asterisks and footnotes dancing before my eyes!</p>