Hi, my SAT Reading score was pretty bad because I got most of the vocabulary questions wrong. I had many easy ones correct, but most of the medium level ones wrong and ALL of the hard ones were incorrect, this damaged my score severely! I’m planning on taking the October SAT, and will start practicing again next month, but the vocab part of the reading section scares me a little. I need to get those questions right (or most of them) in order to get a good score in the Reading section. How do you study vocab? What are some tips? Do you need to learn the entire 1000 SAT words and their meanings? There are so many vocab words! I need help with this, any tip would be appreciated. Thanks!
Yes you kind of have to memorize.
Direct Hits core and toughest vocab can get you through most of the vocab on the SAT.
There’s also Larry Krieger’s Insider’s Guide to SAT Vocab 500 words, something like that.
Those 2 books will get you through most of the SAT vocabulary section.
I missed 1 vocab on the actual SAT with those 2 books (the one I missed was a very specific vocab question).
Hope I helped.