<p>How to deal with idioms?</p>
<p>The thing is, these idioms really ruin my score. Since they aren't really "study-able", how do you guys deal with it?</p>
<p>You've got two months till the next SAT date, either study them or read good books and magazines. hey will become second nature.</p>
<p>An idiom is how different prepositions line up with different words in standard written English, so be on the lookout of verb+prepositions while you read, there are a ton.</p>
<p>to akahmed: can you recommend a list of idioms to study from?</p>
<p>Yeah, idioms is my problem too.</p>
<p>I'd agree with akahmed, but I think you'd need to pay real good attention to the way the words are used in order to embark on that strategy.</p>
<p>yosei - a list of idioms would be gigantic, and you would never "memorize them all". i'd attempt akahmed's strategy.</p>
<p>avex: i know that trying to memorize all idioms would be pointless but there is a bunch of idioms that appear more often than others.</p>
<p>I know this link leads to hundreds of idioms, but just give it a glance</p>
<p>Also there are these idioms on flash card exchange</p>
<p>As always, reading for purpose is the best way, and a lot more entertaining. Read for the purpose of finding verbs with their proper prepositions. You'll pick them up fast.</p>
<p>If neither are appealing, I would try writing down all of the idioms you get wrong on practice SATs and study them, they might come up again and it acquaints you with the nature of the idioms tested.</p>
<p>DO NOT waste your time memorizing idioms. It would be a huge mistake. Idioms only appear on the SAT 5 times on average.</p>
<p>Yeah, but for nonnative speakers like me, it sometimes proves to be the only way. Besides, it was only a suggestion, I recommend reading over memorizing</p>