<p>hi, i have the barrons sat book and does learning the high frequency list in the book help alot? tnaks</p>
<p>well, i'll post for a fellow CCer who's away at the moment :)
she memorized the entire 3500 word list (i know..:eek:) and got an 800..and according to her, it was worth it, cuz it helped like hell</p>
<p>whoa, that's...wow.
everyone says that learning vocab is a waste of time...maybe i should reconsider?</p>
<p>3,500? It is not even worth it at that point.</p>
<p>If you can tackle the reading comp. questions easily, 3,500 words memorized can probably almost garuntee you a perfect reading score.</p>
<p>ok so ill learn those yellow flash cards int he back of the barrons book right?</p>
<p>Sorry for my redundancy (probably almost). Yes learn those yellow flash cards in the back if you believe they will help.</p>
<p>even with vocab doing practice tests is the best way to go, not memorizing words</p>
<p>in one week, i went from 6 vocab wrong per test to (n)one wrong per test just by doing the blue book vocab.</p>
<p>learning roots, prefixes and suffixes will also be pretty efficient at improving your score.</p>
<p>flat-out memorizng vocab is completely inefficient</p>
<p>I have a 720 in CR right now. I feel like I can't improve, because collegeboard says I'll probably only bring it up 10 (has been happening for the past 3 tests). </p>
<p>Think I have enough time from now until October to memorize the 3,500 word list?</p>
<p>You can definitely remember the 3,500 word list from now till October. Just do a page a day. (I think there are 50 pages front and back)</p>
<p>...I got an 800CR without memorizing a ton of words.</p>
<p>You should read hard books and make sure you actually LEARN all the words. And listen to the Decemberists.</p>
<p>I think that's got to be the most enjoyable way to learn vocab.</p>
<p>((Even if you don't know what all the words mean, if you know what most mean, you can eliminate! That's what I did on many of the questions.))</p>