<p>Hey everyone. </p>
<p>studying for the SATs, and the vocab memorization is a pain.
does anyone have any fun, quick tricks to memorize the vocab?</p>
<p>When it comes to learning, the quality of a study book is as good as its ability to make you learn the material. </p>
<p>If your book is dull, which probably 99% of them are, I suggest</p>
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<li>doing something fun with the words (use them in a sentence? a sentence about your friends or people you know?)</li>
<li>talking to yourself while you learn the words. not just talking in your head. talking out loud.</li>
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<p>What books/study references would you recommend?</p>
<p>Most people here recommend Direct Hits, and Princeton Review’s Hit Parade. Of you could go for one of the longer (3000+ word lists) like Barron’s.</p>
<p>Ways to memorize: I liked “Up Your Scores” way of doing it - they used a pun of vivid image. Example: </p>
<p>Most bawdy (obscene) jokes are about the body. Stuff like that.</p>
<p>^Good one :D! I laughed out loud xD.</p>
<p>I recommend Sparknotes’ 1000 Most Common SAT Words. The words aren’t as unrealistically difficult or easy as on other lists, and the list isn’t so long as to be impossible to fully memorize. To memorize, I try to make up a sentence for each word.</p>
<p>Sparknotes novels …lol they have SAT words and some of them are quite interesting. </p>
<p>idk if it would improve reading though do it mainly for the fun and vocab</p>
<p>I practiced 20 practice tests and just noted down the unknown words and their meanings from the tests. I got all the SC’s right in the May SAT and never felt like doing any wrong on SCs.</p>
<p>Memorizing vocab is sheer wastage of time… in my opinion…</p>
<p>I am a non-native speaker of English and haven’t been studying English all my life either…</p>
<p>^ Thats a fine method as well… pretty sure it’s standard to do that. But vocab lists go through the same process that you do (analyzing past SAT words) so I don’t see why you’re saying its a waste of time to study them.</p>