<p>now im sure many of you will agree with me that on this october test day the sentence completions were harder than usual and that the passage readings were easy. Now, we all remember that the old Verbal section was pretty much mainly vocabulary. So, although this may be a guess, but I think collegeboard is trying to make the New SAT more vocab, since it is pretty much all based on passage reading now. What do you think?</p>
<p>that's actually a good thing. Let them thin the passages more and more --maybe they will stop them completely.</p>
<p>I much prefer the passages. and I definitely agree that the SCs seemed harder this time...</p>
<p>it easy guys, i don't understand why you guys don't want an easy perfect SAT score by just going over 3500 Barron wordlist</p>
<p>do you have any idea how long that would take? There's not enough time to do them all between test dates. But it is a good idea, in theory.</p>
<p>thats why you had the entire summer</p>
<p>yes there is stuck. I started on 9/20 and allocated a set amount of time every day. I ended up finishing a week and half early (doing 5-10 pages / day).</p>
<p>some kids just don't have the ability to do that much memorizing. I for one can't do 5 to 10 pages a day; it's beyond my capabilities. I think if I were to just do two ot 3 a day (pick them randomly) it would be satisfactory. (not as good as doing the whole thing, but it would work)</p>
<p>I guess the best logical thing would be to start memorizing vocabs early..like in freshman year.</p>
<p>or to read books</p>
<p>I thought sentence completions were easy this time. :?:</p>
<p>they weren't too bad. neither were the passages though. I'd say the passages were a little easier than the sentence completions. but math and writing were much easier for me.</p>
<p>I've never needed to study vocab... last time I only missed 2 SC. this time was the first time I had trouble with that part.</p>
<p>how the hell can we have time to go through 3500 vocab in under 4 months? By doing that you are only sacrificing time and energy that could be spent studying more point-worthy sections.</p>
<p>Not to mention that if that's what is required, I'd rather forgo a good score for an honest one.</p>
<p>I mean, do they, in all sincerity, expect us to remember these words past their usefulness on the test?</p>
<p>So, I guess they want to separate the overachievers from the rest? Instead of the brightest from the chaff? Really, that's what these tests have come to.</p>