<p>My verbal score recently took a dive in my most recent practice tests from 710+ to more or less around the 50% percentile range. I felt the second practice test I took had alot of harder words than the first and left me clueless half of the time. Is this common? And is there anyway to improve my verbal in 2-3 months freetime?</p>
<p>And how much exactly is the 80th percentile on the SSAT (total score)? Last time I score 2120+ but this time I scored around 2080-2090...</p>
<p>why does everyone seem to struggle with the verbal and excel with the math, im the comppppplete opposite. You may have just been more familiar with the words on the first practice test. Study the prefixes and roots, they make sense and are extremely easy to put into use in real life. Also utilize the fact you do not need to answer every questions. On my practice tests I always found there were atleast 2 questions I was unsure of, flat out guessing can only hurt.</p>
<p>Im not a great math student at all..Im average if I put effort into it. But the math section of the SSAT was still pretty easy for me, you probably just had a bad go at it.</p>
<p>It's the exact same with me. I reached the high 80's, low 90's percentile with my math section, but my verbal was horrid. I was in the 50's percentile as well. Just try to gain as much vocabulary and as said earlier the prefixes and roots. I've hear the Princeton Review SSAT Book is very helpful.</p>
<p>I'm having a little trouble with that too. I think the synonym part is a little hard because the words range in difficulty. The math and reading comprehension are really easy though.</p>
<p>My maths is overall very consistent and my RC is improving gradually. I just noticed Kaplan has a word list and prefix bank in the back, is it useful to study that as well?</p>
<p>I just searched for a good list of ssat vocab words on google, and made flashcards for them. It should help a little (flashcards are the best way to memorize stuff ^_^)</p>