<p>Ahh...This is my weakest section for the sat. I usually get most of the hard and some of the medium questions wrong. Tips please?</p>
<p>you might just need to memorize some of the more common vocab words. other than that, you can try the happy/sad test, but don't use it as a crutch. it usually only gives you like a 50-50 shot at the question.</p>
<p>Try to memorize vocab words, but don't really take the pain and memroize them. Just familiarize yourself with those SAT words. Sometimes I don't even know what a word means, but I can be pretty sure that it doesn't fit in the blank. Even if I can't define a word precisely, I can pretty much "feel" its meaning. The more words you are familiar with, the more you can eliminate, especially on the hard ones; for the last sentence completion question of a section, I usually get it right by eliminating 4 wrong choices.</p>
<p>sorry to go off on a tangent,</p>
<p>but when SAT prep books say hard words have difficult answers..is an easy-medium word with a hard second definition considered a hard word?</p>
<p>Words with hard second definitions are probably the hardest words of all... I advise my students to think of a word before they look at the answer choices. Observing the context of the sentence without allowing the answer choices to distract you is half the battle. (The other half is vocabulary, so getting a good list of SAT words will help.)</p>