<p>I am a sophomore in high school and I am preparing for the SAT though I have very perplexed at the vocabulary. I am wondering what is the best why to conquer the SAT Vocab section.</p>
<p>I have the following material:
Barron's Hot Words for the SAT
Kaplan SAT score raising dictionary
Peterson's Master the SAT</p>
<p>In my opinion, the best book for studying vocab on the SAT is Direct Hits. But Barron’s Hot Words is also good. Idk about the others you have</p>
<p>Any study tips that actually work?</p>
<p>My son has spent a lot of time reading (among many things) the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Each time he comes across a word that he does not know he looks it up and then writes the word and definition in a journal. I think this is one of the best long term ways to improve your vocabulary. </p>
<p>The other thing that I would do is sign up for the College Boards SAT Question of the Day. They will email you a question every day (not always a vocabulary question). My son has been doing a question each morning at breakfast since his sophmore year. It is a small step but every little bit adds up.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
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Replace “Wall Street Journal” with “books/literature,” and it’s what I was about to suggest. It’s a very good method, especially since you’re a sophomore and have time to actually improve your vocabulary, as opposed to cramming for a test.</p>
<p>You could also try learning some basic Greek and Latin roots. Taking Latin classes really helped me (Latin students score >150 more on average on SAT CR), but you don’t have to go that far, you can just learn the most common roots; 60% of English vocabulary is derived from Latin.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the tips guys! I currently have been studying the roots and suffixes and not a majority of them, and now I have been going over one SAT Vocab Words List from the Barons SAT book each day( Currently on Word List 3). I am going to start reading article and books with contain high level of vocab and search the words up I did not know. </p>
<p>Plus is the word list thing good or bad way of studying?</p>
<p>If I were to study for vocab, I’d find it more efficient to study word roots/prefixes/suffixes. This way you don’t need to spend as much time studying, and if you were to forget a word’s definition or didn’t see it in one of you vocab books, you could still figure out the meaning just based on the word most of the time.</p>
<p>I prefer the following vocabulary books: (Separately each of them is weak and not efficient but together they are great!)
<p>Get a book called the 2400 sat by barons. it has a lot of words</p>
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<p>i just got the Princeton review 500 vocab word box plus the 500 most challenging words at the back of the Sparknotes Review Book and i was able to get a 800 on the CR section (not to brag, just trying to show that it works)</p>
<p>The word journal is exactly what I do as well. I didn’t do it for the purpose of studying for the SAT, rather to improve my written and spoken communication and better understand what I was reading. But of course for the test purposes it works very well! I also received an 800 CR and can honestly only attribute it to challenging reading; I didn’t study any vocab lists or books or anything.</p>