Also consider taking again - once my child understood the test her scores changed drastically.
Update: Scored 800 on the verbal, so this seems to work. So general advice:
If youâre taking it in a week or two, maybe itâd be better to memorize lists. But even if youâre just going to take it in a few months, donât bother, because you wonât memorize the same words for months at a time, just by learning their definition & purpose; read as much as you can, at higher levels than usual, and learn the words used in those texts. Maybe, if you still feel unprepared you can utilize the last couple days or week to memorize lists, but I donât find them to work very well.
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I feel like we might have been quietly paging me @DroidsLookingFor! My kid scored 80 (in 2019) and received 1 rejection out of 12 applications (which included highly rejective schools like Andover, Deerfield, hotchkiss, etc). (In case anyone is wondering the rejection was from Taft.)
So yes âdoing horriblyâ is very relative, and not the final word anywhere.
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What books would you recommend?
j. jonathan - 504 essential words for ssat and isee, piqosity isee upper level flashcards (1200 terms), quizlet isee upper level vocab list by bmadison2012.
if you have the time, just read harder and harder books. if not, memorize lists of words.
also, memorize roots. this will give you an idea of words that you donât know. same goes with prefixes.
if youâre taking SSAT, know the different types of analogies.