<p>Do NOT memorize ANY vocab.</p>
<p>It is far better to understand how words are constructed in the English language. If you understand how words are constructed, you’ll be able to figure out the meaning of many words without ever having seen them before.</p>
<p>There are usually only a handful of vocab questions, which each test only a handful of words. You only need to know or guess the meaning of some of these words to correctly answer the questions.</p>
<p>Memorizing long lists of words is time-consuming, and odds are you might not even remember them come test day. Since only a few of those will be used - and since the words on the test might not even be on your list - it’s wasteful to memorize hundreds of words, and useless to memorize any less than that.</p>
<p>Bottom line: Don’t memorize words. Get a feel for how they’re constructed and guess your way through the vocab questions. It helps to be fairly well-read.</p>
<p>I studied a grand total of 0 vocabulary words and didn’t miss a single Writing multiple choice question.</p>
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<p>As for actual preparation strategies:</p>
<p>The biggest thing to do is to take lots and lots of practice tests and identify the types of questions you miss most often, then focus on the skills for those types of questions.</p>