<p>My English teacher is deciding to give me a 250 word test, which she did not tell us which words are going to be on it, so we have to memorize all 500 vocab words that we did throughout the year.</p>
<p>It's on Friday, and I have only 15 words memorized so far.</p>
<p>Help!</p>
<p>first you go through all the words and cross out the one’s you already know. Then make flashcards for the rest and study your ass off.</p>
<p>Surely you know at least most of them already, just by remembering them from previous study sessions and being relatively knowledgeable of the English language. </p>
<p>Also, I hope you’re not memorizing these things word for word. All you need is the general idea of the meaning of each, and leave it at that. If you’re teacher wants you to memorize it word for word, she’s being an idiot, and this test isn’t worth the effort.</p>
<p>Just make a list of the words you aren’t sure of, and study those. Hopefully, you’ll have far less than 500 words to learn.</p>
<p>Hmm… Bribe her $1,000. That’s how I got into Emory: BRIBERY. Sent the admissions a package of $1 million cash.</p>
<p>If it’s English… then you should know most if not all. Then just look up the ones you don’t know and memorize the definitions, not word for word but the basic meaning.</p>
<p>Yeah, she wants us to memorize one line definitions that are in our book for each one. She obviously knows that most kids in my class will not study. She administers these tests to her 8th and 9th graders and each year it is the same result: Half of the class fails.</p>
<p>First off, the test is dumb, but whatever.
Second, if she gives the same test every year, you shouldn’t be just starting to study now.</p>
<p>^^Well, eseem could very well be someone with super memorization power. Like photographic memory. Probably could memorize 300 words in fewer than 2 hours.</p>
<p>You don’t try to memorize, but try to conceptualize and understand them.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a stupid test. I wouldn’t bother putting too much effort into it, unless it’s a significant portion of your grade. If it is, just go with the advice already given. Good luck lol, I hate teachers that demand meaningless effort like that.</p>
<p>Use Mnemosyne.</p>
<p>Flashcards. Write them down multiple times. Think of mnemonic devices or sentences for words that are especially hard. Go out of your way to use them in writing and talking.</p>
<p>With flashcards you should be able to memorize 30-60 definitions per hour. You should know a good portion of them already, so you could probably cut that down to maybe 5 hours or less for 500 words. Making 500 flashcards is a serious investment of time though.</p>
<p>Vocab tests = free points</p>
<p>I usually type out all of the words on a word processing document ie. word/works/open office, and read them in my head, print it out and memorize.</p>
<p>Memorized 450 HG flashcards in 2 days.</p>
<p>^HG is common sense, ftmp.</p>
<p>How many of those 500 words are words you don’t already know? I agree, vocabulary tests are free points. We had tests on 25 words a week and it was a tough week if there were 4 or 5 words I didn’t already know. Save yourself the toruble in the future and read as much as you can (and understand it as you read).</p>
<p>I think it helps to look at common roots in all of them (latin or greek most often) and also categorize them. I also personally from writing them out. For our spanish chapters this year we often had about 150-200 words a unit, and by doing all these things, it helped me learn the words in relatively short periods of time. You may know a lot of the words already, so when you are writing your list, put stars next to the ones that you don’t know. Each time you do this, you can eliminate more and more words as you become comfortable with the list.</p>
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<p>This is great advice. I havent ever studied the Latin or Greek roots, but it seems like a great idea. Even knowing common word parts like “mal” and “bi” can really help. I’m trying to teach this tot he girl I tutor. You may not know what the word dihydrogen monoxide means, but…</p>
<p>di = two
hydrogen = hydrogen
mono = one
oxi-- = oxygen</p>
<p>So you can safely assume that dihydrogen monoxide is another name for H20, aka water. This is an exercise I do with my tutoree all the time, with all kinds of words.</p>
<p>First, get off CC.</p>