<p>I took the June 2nd SAT and ended up canceling my score. I think I got a 800 for my math but oh well. The Critical Reading section is especially hard for a person who has English as his second language. </p>
<p>How did you guys study for your Critical Reading / Vocabulary?</p>
<p>For vocabulary, I think my D register with dictionary.com and the site sends her a new vocab a day. She did this since freshman year by herself or perhaps her teacher told her. For critical reading, that is harder to improve in a short time. I think I basically check out a lot of books for her since kindergarden so she has been reading lots of stuff, well before she hits 11th grade because there is no time to do anything in 11th grade, too busy.</p>
<p>I mean, there can be millions of words tested on the actual SAT. The vocab in English is unlimited! How can you possibly get 800/800 on the sentence completion part?</p>
<p>Is there any resource that can help?</p>
<p>Knowing word roots, prefixes, suffixes can help you figure out what new words mean. Also, SAT prep books should have a list of vocab words. You should start memorizing a few a day. Assuming that you are going to retake in October, you have a few months. You could potentially increase your vocab by hundreds of words by just memorizing three a day.</p>
<p>I dunno but I guess you could read Dictionary.com archives on Word of the Day and they have words from like every month from 2001 to 2007 or something like that. </p>
<p>I guess you could review those. Although, im studying from Barrons and <a href="http://www.freevocabulary.com%5B/url%5D">www.freevocabulary.com</a> which has 5000 vocab words and Im dedicating my entire summer to those two. </p>
<p>Any other resources to me and iAppler would be helpful...</p>
<p>Thx</p>
<p>I am only a sophomore and took the SAT on Saturday. Writing and Math are not problems to me.... The only problem is reading... XD!</p>
<p>Any other suggestion?</p>
<p>Ya, you could memorize 5000 words, or you can do what i do, which is memorizing 600 common words. It's more helpful than you would think, because these are REALLY the most common sat words. THere might be a word in there that you don't know, but knowing the most common words tested can help you eliminate other choices.</p>
<p>As for the critical reading section, just read carefully, practice keeping your concentration, and try to be interested. Every answer comes out of the text itself, once you can read that text fast and retain information, the questions should be a piece of cake</p>
<p>I tried Barron's high frequency word list and unfortunately, the real SAT has none of those words...-.-...</p>
<p>I've never heard of those. I would try the underground guide to the SAT, and their wordlist. There will always be words you never studied, and you are a sophmore only, so after those 600 most common words you can go onto other books. But memorizing a dictionary is really unnecessary if u ask me, especially since the SAT uses weird meanings of the word sometimes. Like pedestrian or table</p>
<p>just the old-fashioned flashcards of vocabs</p>
<p>it's painful, but it works.</p>
<p>I started reading more. It's more entertaining than flash cards, and you will actually retain the meaning of the word. You could try really thick stuff like James Joyce or the Austen sisters, or you could go with something as modern as Michael Parker, David Sedaris or some recent pulitzer winners. They all help out. I would strongly recomend reading any of the Pulitzer winners in the past ten years. They have a strong vocab plus (obviously) amazing plots, entertainment, and writing styles. Flash cards work, but if you're just a sophomore and have time to take the SAT again several times, and bc it's the summer, you should read instead of watching TV. Good luck!</p>
<p>Study the hit parade (bout 300 words) from the PR, and the yellow words from BArrons. I memerized all of those and on this SAT(june 2nd) with a mix of hit parade and general knowledge I knew all of them except 1, which I left empty.</p>
<p>read the dictionary.</p>
<p>Read literature as often as you can. I would recommend Joseph Conrad, but if you're not a fan of his just stick to anything interesting and substantial at the library.</p>
<p>Do Not Read The Dictionary. These People Are Tricking You Into Wasting Your Time. Just Buy An Sat Prep Book With High Frequency Vocab Words And More Words For Fun. They Give About 3,000 Words. Which Always Seem To Be On The Sat.</p>
<p>also look ar barron's hot prospect list, if all else fails, read all 3,000 words in the book. i haven't seen an sat word from the sat not in those pages. excpet maybe 1.</p>
<p>use the SPARKNOTES WORD BOX- 1,000 words- i didnt memorize all of them, but i just took the SAT and i dont think i got any vocab wrong so......DO IT!</p>
<p>when you get 3000 words of course come will be on the SAT...I dont have to be a test prep company for that and if i give you 3000 words I bet you i hit some too!.....here's what i did and although much of the vocab was easy on the May exam those that werent i knew cuz of this. Take the blue book practice tests and write down the vocab words you dont know (even if they werent teh right answer but in the question), then if you can/want buy 10 real SATs on amazon for 1 cent plus 3 dollar shipping and flip through and look for vocab you dont know....last try to trade people for past exams and do the same thing with that. After this you'll probably have a list of words of about 250-500 words based on how many you knew. Look them up and right each one on a notecard...youve started your studying already by reading the definition when you looked it up and again when you wrote it..and then just keep studying them. Thats what i did and i thought it 1) helped and 2) allowed me to take time to study other aspects of the test that are more specific and not study 3000 words or the dictionary which is absurd.</p>
<p>so agree with brownieboy. Memorized sparknotes 1000, helped me a lot.....trust the blue cards.....</p>
<p>i started memorizing vocab since 7th grade. use the glossary of the princeton vocab building books...</p>