<p>For those who have memorized any of the word lists for the SAT, what was your strategy for memorizing them?</p>
<p>I hope that you know some of the words on the word lists.
Use the words in everyday conversation. Try to include it in your dinner conversations and in class.</p>
<p>That makes sense. This would obviously work very well for retaining the words.</p>
<p>What about the initial memorization? Flash cards, lists, 10 a day, 50 a day?</p>
<p>Im working with 15 a day off of RR core words</p>
<p>But I seem to know some of them.</p>
<p>what prep book/list is filled with vocab words constantly seen on the SATs?</p>
<p>^ Damn you spammer.</p>
<p>I'm nowhere close to studying for the SAT's, but when I had to study vocab for school, I did:</p>
<p>(usu. approx. 30ish words) I would go over all 30 words in like 3 minutes real fast, then see which ones I remember and put those aside, do the rest to the pile I didn't remember in 2 minutes, and so on...and do a big quick check of definitions for all words again. Pretty efficient, takes like less than 10 minutes total to memorize the whole thing.</p>
<p>@Invoyable: that sounds like a good method, but after you memorize the list in ten minutes, do those definitions get imprinted in your head or do you retain them only for a short while</p>
<p>make flash cards</p>
<p>use mnemosyne project..its a virtual flashcard program.</p>
<p>but the thing is how long do you keep the vocabs in your head.
some words encounter me often I can easily put them to my head and memorize them, but some I cannot however hard I try. :|</p>
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@Invoyable: that sounds like a good method, but after you memorize the list in ten minutes, do those definitions get imprinted in your head or do you retain them only for a short while
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To put it honestly it was short-term for a test so I would memorize it the night before and after the exam is over and like a week, 2 weeks pass I would only remember like 50% of it...but that's cause I never looked at it again... I'm just trying to emphasize speed, used correctly, is very efficient. </p>
<p>I don't literally memorize definition word for word, but just go like, "Ah, this is something like this, etc" and read the sentence if I am confused.</p>
<p>@SAS909002: mnemosyne is very troublesome to install on a mac
@legend.dracula: i agree with you. retaining some words is very hard.</p>
<p>The best trick is to read as much as you can. Identify words in context, find their definitions, and then use them in conversation.</p>
<p>If you're trying to memorize lists make up mnemonic devices. For example, 'the swampy smell was so bad is aggravated my asthma...MIASMA." etc</p>
<p>how would one go about memorizing 100 words a day???</p>
<p>Why would you ever memorize 100 words a day?</p>
<p>Ever?</p>
<p>I'd personally do no more than 1 a day, but that's cuz I have a lot of time...haha.</p>
<p>I got a perfect CR score, and to memorize words I just got a list of the 500 most common words on the SAT. I broke them up into 14 lists of about 45, and went through and crossed out the ones I already knew by heart. I studied the remaining words over the course of the school year before I took the SAT. After that, I honestly thought the vocab was a joke.</p>
<p>If I were to use wordlists, I would use a program called SuperMemo. Google it. It is like the other one mentioned, but it apparently will remind you of the ones you've learned right when you are statistically supposed to forget them.</p>
<p>I wouldn't use wordlists. Read a book instead.</p>
<p>I read these books from SparkNotes called SAT Vocabulary Novels. They are loaded with SAT words and on each page it shows a brief definitions of the words on the page. Works for me.</p>
<p>Ok here's one secret to actually memorize better:</p>
<p>use your ear!!! your ear's way more focused than your eyes. Read the words as you memorize. When you see a word, read it or sub-vocalize it, and if your eye doesn't tell your the answer, your ears might.</p>
<p>Umm....Poisonous, congrats on your success, but can you specify where you got that list?</p>