<p>I've heard something about a Barron's 3000 SAT word list for a lot of vocab words. Obviously it would be a big help, but is it really necessary, and do a lot of those words appear on the SAT? Should I just buy a book from a store that has most common, or study online that has the most specific? Is learning 4000 words in 2-3 months manageable?</p>
<p>If you have little time, I guess do the wordlists. There are more productive ways of doing the SCs like feeling the connotation of the word instead of knowing it, and know where there should be a positive or negative word.</p>
<p>If you have a lot of time, reading a good piece of literature is the best thing to do. Read complex but manageable novels like from Dickens, or the Bronte sisters, anything Victorian. Write down words you don't know and learn them, both by deciphering meaning from context and the occasional dictionary look up. It is much more entertaining than a word list, believe me.</p>
<p>Great Expectations(from 3 years ago in 8th grade) is a good example because back then, I couldn't understand the majority of it because there was complex vocab everywhere. Granted, all the vocab from GE won't have me covered for the SAT. I should have been doing the old read the newspaper and look up words thing. That helps with both Critical Reading and vocab though. Is it true that there are only 19 sentence completion sentences though? I'm still preparing for them, especially since there are complex vocab words in the critical reading passages at times, or just words that I've never heard of.</p>
<p>have 10-20 flash cards at your toilet. whenever u take a dump/****, look at the flash cards. you are guaranteed to be learning these vocab terms everyday. after 1-2 weeks, use 20 new flash cards and repeat the cycle.</p>
<p>i did this for 6 months.. quick, easy, and harmless way to learn a little vocab.</p>
<p>good luck.</p>