<p>does anyone know any goos sites with SAT vocabulary..or any books?</p>
<p>Is Word Smart promising?</p>
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<p>Barron's 3,500 basic word list would be good.</p>
<p>Where do we get that list?</p>
<p>its in barron's sat prep book</p>
<p>Oh! Thanks! I'll go add that to my Amazon shopping cart right now then. :)</p>
<p>say i memorize the barron's 3500 word list, will i get 95-100% sentence completions right on the SAT?</p>
<p>you could do that without memorizing a stupid list of words, most of which won't appear on the test.</p>
<p>learn basic latin roots (theyre also in the barron's book)...if you MUST memorize something....</p>
<p>especially after they removed the analogies...the emphasis isn't on vocab anymore...it's on understanding context and such...</p>
<p>Yes, but its still to your advantage if you know all of those words. I know that if I didn't study, I'd probably get HALF the questions wrong. SO what most of them won't be on the test? One or two of them might and you'll be happy to know you got them right!</p>
<p>Also, it will be easier to read with a bigger vocab!</p>
<p>Didn't sparknotes have like a book series with vocab in it? And it highlighted the vocab word whenever youc ame across it in the books?</p>
<p>maybe i'm just not into wasting my time with the whole memorizing a list of words thing...way too boring...</p>
<p>any time you see a word you don't know....write it down and look it up later...keep a notebook and go through it every so often....and you're good...
that way you;re sure you've learned the words because you've seen it in context.</p>
<p>memorizing the list out of context won't necessarily help with sentence completions.</p>
<p>OH, yeah, that's true. I've been using the things my school prepared. It has the list of words, then sentence completetion, synonyms and antonyms work for each of the words.</p>
<p>the only vocab I've "studied" is the stuff they make us learn at school...
which actually helps because they're words i can actually use sometimes...those are actually what people should be learning because from what I've seen, the SAT isn't testing those crazy random words nobody's ever heard pronounced anymore...which is why i say grab stuff from what you see, hear, read....and look them up...</p>
<p>wow, my vocab absolutely sucks and I scored a 780 on the english in march. You don't need to memorize vocab by any means. I am a sophmore and read about once a year outside of AP cram week. I think that taking debate last year and being as successful as I am in the activity has prepared me the most though. If you really feel the need to memorize vocab, don't take the SAT. Go cram for a daily quiz in school. It isn't testing you over memorization of words, it is comprehension of the syntax and meaning of words. Both of which can be figured out though simple analysis. I recomend reading Grammatix if you're going to study for the English section. It should help you out a ton. After that try reading a lot of foreign publisher magazines, or magazines in general.. not teeny bopper crap though. I prefer reports issued by the islamic voice, al jahzera, CSM, BBC, WTO, Amnesty Intl., IMF. Those will help you increase your English score a ton. Not to mention you learn a TON and you will learn vocab like mad.</p>
<p>where can u get Grammatix?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.freevocabulary.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.freevocabulary.com/</a></p>
<p>If you opened it up in MS Word and got rid of the 3,000 easy words, it might be pretty good.</p>
<p>best thing to do is go through the Barron's high frequency word list. It doesn't take long and I found it useful.</p>
<p>The 5,000 list is far too big. And I disagree -- memorizing vocab can help on SC's. If anything, it causes trouble on vague analogies (which are used no more..).</p>
<p>I think you guys should start out with smaller lists before the Barron's one. Get through the PR and Sparknotes lists first, to make sure you know the important ones.</p>
<p>I agree with Knavish. Smaller lists are better.</p>
<p>The reason why I think this is true is because ETS has copies of the Barron's list, the Princeton's list, and all the other popular lists out there. They know what words the most of the country is studying... and I think that they choose to not use a lot of those words for that reason.</p>
<p>If you can compose your own, or with a friend, of words that you see often on the practice SATs or old SATs, then you're probably better off like that.</p>
<p>Besides, there's only so many words on the test. Kindof knowing 5,000 words isn't going to help you as much as knowing 500 words solidly.</p>
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I disagree. You don't need to know the exact meaning of the one word that is the correct answer for the sentence completion---you just need to know that the other four words aren't the right answer. "Having a feel" for every word I encounter has saved my arse on many a sentence completion, and comes in handy for everyday use.</p>
<p>thx for all the help...</p>