<p>I am planning to give SAT1 in October. As an international student,this exam is indifferent for me.So I just start my preparation as memorizing new words that are in SAT book.. 3400 words.
It is ok memorizing them even there are some words which are very confusing.But after 2 or 3 days , I start forgetting them and when I e them again I can't say what the word meaning is.
So, I am just start thinking how can I give SAT with score higher than 700.Please help me how to memorize them.AS WELL AS what words usually come out in SAT??</p>
<p>Well, you don’t need to know 3400 words. Just buy Direct Hits and make index cards. You should connect the word with some pop icon or someone that the word describes to remember the word instead of memorizing the meaning. Also, learn how to get the feel of the word so that you can find out if it is a positive or negative or if it sounds like another word in the English language.</p>
<p>The best way for me to memorize vocabulary words is to use them in a sentence. That way, you’ll know the definition and parts of speech.</p>
<p>I’m an international too and for the vocab part of the SAT, I just read a bunch of books. SAT vocab is basically written English and you can find all the words in books.</p>
<p>Yeah, just read books that are challenging and have lots of vocabulary words. I wouldn’t recommend memorizing words, and it’s not like there are 3400 challenging words on the SAT.</p>
<p>memorizing 3400 words is definitely unnecessary. I only finished at the B-started word, but it turned out that I can understand all the reading passages and 99% of the words even by memorized so little. </p>
<p>My suggestion: there is a high-frequency word list. Try to remember them instead of the whole list, and the number of those words is approximately 800.</p>
<p>Flashcards would be a good way to retain the words. Just go through them every so often to refresh your memory.</p>
<p>Don’t force the words into your head at the same time. Divide the words into stacks that you learn every week, and even have a word of the day.</p>
<p>Don’t bother learning all of a specific list. Learn the high-frequency words, and then familiarize yourself with various roots / morphemes so you can infer meanings.</p>
<p>Try memorizing the direct hit volumes first, at least know those 500-600 words inside out. 3400 is a painful process. Trust me, I’ve been there junior year, and hell I regret it so much.
Trying memorizing 50 words a day, then next day review from the previous chapter(always review previous 2-3 chapters so u can retain them), memorize 50 more, and keep going. When you finish the book, breeze thru the entire thing from beginning, so u really know it by heart. At this point, it should be really easy.
when you memorize, by the way, make sure you read the sentence with the word, know how its used in a context, and if a word is hard to remember, try to make the most absurd connection with it, either in ur own native language or another word that sounds similar, then you should be fine.
It worked for me, just my 2 cents</p>
<p>I suggest that you read an English newspaper or books every so often just so you can be exposed to vocab words in contexts.</p>
<p>There is no how to…just do it. 10 words a day should suffice if you have time. Maybe 20+ words for a month should be good.</p>
<p>I did it by synonyms.</p>
<p>For example, I can think of quite a few words off the top of my head that mean essentially the same thing (I can just figure out the part of speech from the sentence):</p>
<p>Lugubrious, saturnine, crestfallen, dour, tenebrous, sullen, despondent, etc.</p>
<p>While compiling self tests, I list the definition of Lugubrious as tenebrous, tenebrous as despondent, and so on.</p>
<p>I mean I guess if you have trouble memorizing just one of them, you’ll fail at the other too.</p>
<p>But it is an efficient system.</p>
<p>You don’t.</p>
<p>Buy Direct Hits.</p>