Is it better to study actual words or word roots for the SAT?

Test Preparation
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<p>Is it better to study actual words or word roots for the SAT? My one friend who actually has an SAT tutor created this giant pile of wor root flash cards but I feel like it would be more beneficial to study actual words.</p>

2

<p>My friend never bothered with memorizing roots, and he did fine on the SAT. He just found a list of commonly used SAT words and memorized them.</p>

3

<p>Roots can be helpful but can also mislead: those letter combinations occur in many words that don’t have the root, after all.</p>

<p>Learn words.</p>

4

<p>I agree with the above two posters, learning words (not memorizing them) rather than roots is a lot better imho. The SAT use a lot of words that the roots you memorize can’t really apply to so learning all the commonly used SAT words would be more beneficial.</p>