<p>Visit <a href="http://www.psdinc.org%5B/url%5D">www.psdinc.org</a> and click on the Amazon.com link to buy ($25).</p>
<p>The program is called the Personal Flash Card System and it gives you AUTOMATED vocabulary cards. It has over 3000 common SAT vocabulary compiled from the vocabulary lists of Kaplan, Barron's, and Princeton Review.</p>
<p>Don't waste time studying lists or making flash cards by hand. This program comes with all the necessary words pre-installed. It allows you to print out the words and definitions to have INSTANT flash cards. It generates multiple choice tests and even lets you have a friend or parent quiz you with verbal and written vocabulary tests.</p>
<p>I went from a 650 CR to an 800 CR by using this program. I learned that by studying vocabulary and learning all the words I was able to breeze through all the vocabulary recall questions and spend much more time analyzing the passages.</p>
<p>I strongly recommend this program because it helped me go up 150 points and it was only 25 bucks!!!</p>
<p>Best way to learn vocab = reading. I'll be reading Crime and Punishment, The Grapes of Wrath, Hardball, It's Greek to Me!, and Night this summer to fulfill that aspect of studying for the SAT. When you read, highlight/mentally note any words you don't fully understand. Check their meanings online or in a dictionary afterwards.</p>
<p>Also, reading helps with [drum roll please] the critical reading passage sections!</p>
<p>And, if you're reading a book about math, you can kill THREE birds with ONE stone.</p>
<p>Boooo <a href="http://www.psdinc.org%5B/url%5D">www.psdinc.org</a>! Hooooray beer, er, reading!</p>
<p>How about reading like 5 full-length wikipedia articles every day on random subjects?</p>
<p>lol at ^, even though i don't think it'll work</p>
<p>jask925 sounds a bit too much like an advertisement</p>
<p>If you're going to buy flash cards, I'd get paper ones.</p>
<p>Online ones don't typically work as well. From a cognitive standpoint, flash cards work in large part because a) you engage several senses and your motor skills while you use them, and b) you can study them in short bursts instead of all at a stretch, because they're easy to carry around.</p>
<p>The second part above (i.e., that you should study words in short bursts of attention rather than in one long stretch) is pretty solidly documented by educational research.</p>
<p>Also, from a time management standpoint, flash cards work because, hey, what else can you do while you're waiting in line/waiting for your teacher to show up/waiting for the subway? For busy students, this can be the single biggest advantage of cards. They're just so !@#% convenient. They don't eat any time out of your day at all, because you use them to study when you would otherwise be standing around.</p>
<p>Online flashcards don't necessarily have any of these advantages. You usually have to be home or sitting down somewhere to use them.</p>
<p>I don't think Grapes of Wrath will give you much vocabulary, to be honest. Great book, but aside from "***** monkey" I didn't learn any new words. ;) Steinbeck's language is pretty simple.</p>