How do I ace vocab and sentence completion on October SAT?

[DDOuser]

A lot of the critical reading guides here seem too dedicated to just passage based questions, but I’m looking for ways to increase my sentence completion. I memorized the 500 most frequent words but it still doesn’t seem even remotely close enough to ace the sentence completion. I’m wondering what I can do to reasonably expect to ace sentence completion.

[anon67749591]

@xiggi

Are you really? If you are, this is what you do:

1. Forget about reading asinine lists of words. Even if it might help a bit, it will be a colossal waste of your time.
2. Go back to your stack of official tests. Do not use any of the wannabe tests.
3. Get all the SC sections and start READING every one of them (not taking the test to "check" what you know. Read every question WITH the answer in front of you. Look up any word you do not know but most importantly NOTE THE PATTERNS and identify WHY 4 answers are wrong. At least two should be dead giveaways. Make sure you KNOW why they are wrong.
4. Understand that the SC is mostly a matter a proper technique and that you do NOT need to know every word that will appear as most of them are NOT relevant to finding the correct answer.
5. When you finish your stack, do it again!

If you are not improving, look for one great guide on this issue. Buy the Black Book by Mike Barrett or google search the ubiquitous Grammatix older version.

[DDOuser]

Please tell me how I’m wrong. If I were to do that wouldn’t i just noticed some words I don’t know simply don’t work and some do.

[DDOuser]

i used direct hits and got perfect sentence completion.