<p>I think pretty much all SAT prep is sort of ridiculous. I mean, yeah, study the week before, maybe do one practice test, review basic techniques. But I think people who memorize SAT words and study for months ahead of the test are sort of insane.
I can’t say that my personal interests aren’t good prep for the SAT. One of my favorite books is a book of English grammar. All of my life, when I have encountered words I don’t know, I’ve looked them up in the dictionary, and written down their meanings. For goodness sakes, at times I’ve even read the dictionary. And the books I read aren’t Harry Potter and Twilight, they’re Nabokov and Tolstoy. Nonetheless, I never bought a book of “500 SAT words.” And I think my “method” of prep was pretty dece. When I visited one of my friends, who is, I should mention, very intelligent, and already had an 800 on the Math section, she was studying for the Writing and CR sections. She had a big pile of 100 or so words she was trying to memorize and had been studying. I could define every one of them for her, and I bet I had more fun learning them than she did. </p>
<p>You’re wasting your time.</p>