<p>Ok, so we all, or many of us encounter sentence completions that we have no clue about. What do you do then?--other than skip it.</p>
<p>I seriously almost always get about one wrong on sentence completion per section, which drops my CR score. What do you suggest I do? Oh, and I studied every single word in sparknotes wordlist--to perfection.</p>
<p>So the Sparknotes list didn't help?</p>
<p>For sentence completions you don;t know the words for, it helps to try to get a sense of the charge of the word, as in if it is positive or negative. Also, remember that hard questions have hard answers, and easy ones have easy answers.</p>
<p>Oh the Sparknotes list definitely helped. I usually got about three wrong on each section--now I only get at most one wrong. I'm just working towards 0 wrong, lol</p>
<p>what sparknotes list</p>
<p>The Sparknotes 100 Most Common SAT Words list.
<a href="http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdf</a></p>
<p>He/she probably used the 1000 most common words if it helped him/her that much.</p>
<p>You studied all 1000 words to perfection? Holy ****!!!!!!!!!111111111111</p>
<p>use barron's 1400 sat wordlist. thats what i did. I usually get 0-2 wrong in the entire test</p>
<p>Is barron's definitely better than sparknotes?</p>
<p>Yeah, I missed three SC's each time one year ago. .. but then I memorized Barron's 3500 word list, and I rarely miss SC's anymore. However, I don't think the barron's list will give you a 99% guarantee even if you memorized everything perfectly. And of couse, you can't really memorize all 3500 in one year or so. . .I still miss SC's with vocab on the list.
But anyways, I would go with the 3000 - 3500 list, depending on the time you have left, of couse.</p>
<p>If your smart and you know the secrets to sentence completition questions you can get 100% right on each section w/o knowing the "hard words". Just use strategy. I got an 1600 on the old SAT without blowing my brains out with vocab.</p>
<p>What's teh strategy!?</p>
<p>There is no strategy... It's all bull... He just knows all vocab ever probably b/c he/she comes from a top high school and has been forced by parents and teachers to read college level material since he/she was like 2 years old. lol. Really, guys, the only way, USUALLY, to get a high score on the SAT is to take the hardest courses, and study really hard.. ANy "get a high score quick" sceems probably don't do a whole **** of a lot.</p>
<p>Buy Grammatix if you want to know. It explains it very well; however, I have my own idiosyncrasies, but the Grammatix book explains the meat of the strategy.</p>
<p>There are definately patterns on all sentence completion questions. In China, there are courses that prep students for the TOEFL and they do not teach vocabulary. Instead, the course teaches definate patterns to use to eliminate answer choices strategically and pick the correct answer without understanding the vocabulary. Alot of the students got 620+ without studying any vocabulary.</p>
<p>il bandito, can you explain the pattern for me?</p>
<p>Develop one yourself or buy Grammatix. Dont try and leech information...</p>
<p>In no way am I trying to leech information. Furthermore, I myself have bought Grammatix. Afterall, this forum is to ask questions--in fact, I was asking general questions, not asking specifically what Grammatix says, since it doesn't seem to be working for me. </p>
<p>Ironically, you are leeching much information as well, as information is exactly what college confidential provides. </p>
<p>Please don't accuse.</p>
<p>How do patterns help you with vocab that you don't know? Unless Grammatix and harvardgenius uncovered some secret pattern to the actual answers themselves, I don't see how patterns will help you. For example,
take this question:</p>
<p>The critic's writing is so obscure that upon reading, one finds its (blank) hard to penetrate.</p>
<p>Say that you eliminated the answers down to "prolixity" and "opacity". If you don't know the meanings of these words, how are you going to answer the problem without guessing? How do patterns help you in this situation?</p>
<p>I know like 80% of the 1000 words list, and from the practice tests in the blue book, there may be at most 3 words per test I don't know.</p>