<p>How important is vocab on the (P)SAT? We have a free class at our school and we learn 100 words each week, but I don't seem to be learning much. The last half-hour is strategies, which I need help on.</p>
<p>So, how important is vocab?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I believe that it's very important. I used to do poorly on the CR (high 500's) but after reading tons of vocab, I improved myself to 700+</p>
<p>Is it only useful on the CR part?</p>
<p>Might be useful on writing once in a while.</p>
<p>Vocab helps you identify meanings and context in the CR and writing passages, it helps effectively express points of views in essays, and it aids tremendously in the fill-in-the-blank SAT vocab questions.</p>
<p>If you're short on time, I don't reccomend spending it poring over pointless vocab lists and whatnot. If you read books, newspapers, magazines, whatever... should be sufficient to score decent on the SAT. Wait, scratch that -- if you read at ALL, you should do okay lol. Just look through the context, sometimes you don't need to know an exact meaning to get the correct answer. </p>
<p>However, if you have a few weeks to spare, go look for Xiggi's old "most common SAT words" list and try to learn those! It was very helpful~</p>
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<p>You will learn to appreciate vocab, especially if you struggle with the CR section! haha... it's the one part of the CR where you can actually make concrete progress in your studying.</p>
<p>Oh..ok thanks for all your responses.</p>
<p>unless you are struggling with vocab, don't study too much. and when you study do not mindlessly study. find one ofthose most common sat word lists and study from that. rocket review and princeton review have good lists. try those. but remember check if it really is the vocab portion hurting you. I remember I would make lame excuses saying it is the weird vocab hurting me when in reality it was the passage reading that hurt the most.</p>