<p>I was just surfing away from CC to get away from a thread full of obsessiveness about the SAT, when what should I find but a news article </p>
<p><a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/1592/5285834.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.startribune.com/stories/1592/5285834.html</a> </p>
<p>about a company that sells a shower curtain imprinted with SAT words so that you can get your studying in while you wash. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Now that's just plain sad!</p>
<p>That's what I thought too. The shower is where I engage in free revery and don't worry about college admission and such.</p>
<p>A relative of mine has SAT vocabulary words and definitions (which are also her son's weekly spelling/vocab words at his school) printed out and tied with ribbon bows and hanging from the refrigerator door. Excessive...very excessive.</p>
<p>And not a single one of those words will end up on his sitting of the SAT.</p>
<p>If it had been available when my older S was a high school junior, I would have gotten it. It would have saved me heaps of money in hot water as I'm sure it would have driven my S out of the shower sooner! :)</p>
<p>Hmm... is there an audio version out yet? Kids could listen to a list of SAT words, instead of belting out the latest rap hits.</p>
<p>Quick - somebody patent this idea..</p>
<p>that's what I was saying in another thread. Cell phones, ipods, etc....
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New Study Devices for the New SAT
WSJ's March 8th edition:</p>
<p>Test-prep CDs, puzzles, cellphone software hit a market of non-readers.
It's a race out there for market share of new products. Princeton Review and Kaplan have SAT software for cell-phones. TI is programming their calculators with math and vocab. drills.Sparknotes is honing in on IPOD. Classics are being reprinted with SAT words in bold-face. And to top it all, lyrics are being written with SAT words, such as "How ironic that you are going away to be a cardiologist"
Any buyers?
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<p>Marite's comment (#6) is my LOL for the day.</p>
<p>Marite:</p>
<p>great idea -- my teen D, who used to take a 30 SECOND shower when she was 10, now takes 30 minutes.....hmmm, in SoCal, we could save a LOT of water.</p>
<p>We used to have a shower curtain with a map of the world on clear plastic. Bought it because we thought it was cool. In the fifth grade my daughter surprised everyone by winning the regional geography test--the only academic prize she ever won. Claimed to have never cracked a book!</p>
<p>marite - Laughed out loud at your post! I also think that piping in the SAT words through a speaker would REALLY drive them out of the shower fast.</p>
<p>FWIW:A couple of years ago, in my naivete, I ordered my S one of those books with the SAT words in bold, more out of curiosity than anything else.What a joke. He said that every time he came to a bold word, it threw off his concentration! Never finished the book!That was the first and last attempt at "preparing" for the SAT.</p>
<p>Here's to glass shower doors!</p>
<p>bookiemom: I find it interesting you call your relative's studying methods for his/her kids excessive, as there are tons of families who spend thousands of dollars to prepare their children for the SAT...</p>
<p>Actually, I think it is a pretty good idea, and if the graphics were attractive, I would buy one myself. I remember reading cereal boxes while I ate breakfast as a kid, from side to side, whatever was around was of interest. One of my brainstorms is that they run printed text below cartoons and kid's tv shows, think it would really help reading. Nonreading adults could learn, too. Some of it becomes subliminal, not an effortful way to learn. Most of us can read that kind of thing while we think our own thoughts. The geography bee star probably was not all that aware she was learning.</p>
<p>I studied SAT Vocab in my history class when the teacher talks something that's borning and subordinate.</p>