<p>Memorizing vocab words is a nutty way to succeed on the Verbal. It’s not going to help you out of context.</p>
<p>Overstudying to the point of burnout is silly once you’ve already reached your little glass ceiling. Besides, sometimes you can do worse if you overstudy because you’ll start overanalyzing EVERYTHING and you might be so sick of the test that you can’t perform on the test day. Maybe this is just me though; I am a HUGE overanalyzer and I performed brilliantly on the test day when I was too sick to think deeply into any question.</p>
<p>I should think this is common sense. For example, do you study for a math test after you’ve learned all the concepts? Do you study for a history test once you’ve memorized all the material? The SAT just makes people crazy ;P</p>