<p>I've decided that to do better on the SAT, I need to study some more vocab (the little bit I did 9th and 10th grade isn't getting me to get all of the hard vocab).</p>
<p>I have Princeton's Hit Parade (I don't plan on buying the Direct Hits).</p>
<p>My question, what are your tips on vocabulary?</p>
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<p>Did you follow a schedule? If so, what was it? How many words did you approximately memorize?</p>
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<p>Any other vocab help would be great?</p>
<p>Mnemosyne flash cards [ google it ]</p>
<p>I memorize how ever many I can every day.</p>
<p>Barron’s (I believe?) Hot Words for the SAT is a really good book, and so is the SAT prep book by Gary Gruber for vocab building. I generally went 2-3 chapters/day with Barron’s and 1 column of words/day with Gruber’s.</p>
<p>Im using the Vocabulary Workshop books the school gives us, and making notecards, plus defining the synonyms and antonyms I don’t know. The passages are very good for learning to see the words in context-they ask you to figure out what a word means in the context of the sentence.</p>
<p>I didnt really spend to much time on vocab, but when i did i made flashcards. I think the vocab on the SAT is stupid to know in life. So, i didnt put much effort into it.</p>
<p>I bought sparknotes 1000 words which are one flashcards. I made my direct hits and pr’s hit parade and barron’s hot words into flashcards. whenever I come across new words, I make more flashcards. You can also hole punch a corner of your flashcards an put them on a handy dandy ring so reviewing is fast and neat.</p>
<p>I never had to study vocab because I read a lot and always look up words I don’t know.</p>
<p>Barrons 3500 list is good.</p>
<p>I am making a story out of the vocab words and draw them out on a mind map with characters in it. Linked about 1000 words to my story and still adding. </p>
<p>It’s something i learned from the net about how you can memorize better if you link your thoughts as a story. Just visualize the story when you first wake up and when you are going to bed. It’s working for me.</p>
<p>Why did you rule out Direct Hits? It’s definitely the easiest way to improve your SAT vocab.</p>
<p>^Yeah, Direct Hits is very useful. Before Direct Hits, I always missed 3-5 on the sentence completions, keeping me stuck in the 580-620 range, and after Direct Hits, I consistently hit between 680-740.</p>
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Please don’t bother with this. You’re wasting you time.</p>
<p>And really Direct Hits is probably the best way. I don’t know why you’ve ruled it out. And I’ve found Quizlet to be nice.</p>
<p>OP I agree with some of the other posters in suggesting that you reconsider Direct Hits. It’s a CC favorite for a reason; it’s shown good results for many overachieving CCers.</p>
<p>Good suggestions here. The one about writing a story is excellent. It is all about making associations, which is why trying to memorize an alphabetical list of tough words is pretty useless. I really like Word-Nerd.com which does a lot to help you make associations. Direct Hits is also good, but sounds like you’ve ruled that out. Good luck!</p>
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<p>I used Barron’s yellow flashcards that come with the normal Barron’s SAT book. I liked them because I needed flashcards to review but I didn’t have time to make my own flashcards. And I didn’t want to do that thorough of a review (Direct Hits) because I didn’t have time.</p>
<p>I didn’t know about half the words in the whole pile. A week beforehand, whenever I had time, I tried to memorize new words. I probably did several short (20-min) sessions. I didn’t memorize all of them but I recognized a couple of them on the SAT. I plan to go over them again before I retake the SAT.</p>
<p>smart.fm</p>
<p>anyone else trying it out? they have two (very effective) quizzes aimed specifically at CR vocab</p>