<p>English was my 2nd language, and I didn't know words like conventional and refute when I started learning words from lists. I have done about 500 of the 1000 Sparknotes words, 300 RR, 300 PR, and I would rather not learn words from reading articles because they don't give as many words and you don't learn as quickly. After Sparknotes 1000, where should I go next to learn as many words as I can before June 7? It's a longshot, but I want to get 19/19 SC to leave me breathing room for passages.</p>
<p>you don’t need to learn more words…</p>
<p>you need to memorize and master all the words you have already and so you will never get the wrong. Just keep working on SC problems</p>
<p>you have the vocabulary down, now get the confidence…</p>
<p>i hope you write down and define all vocab that you don’t know. This is extremely help you. In addition, to your all the readings in english class, which have a ton of SAT words and writing style that mimics the passages on the SAT. Personally, I just pwned a big ass list. And it helped a lot. I mean there were like 1500 words, and some of them I knew, some didn’t, some strengthened, etc. But I know that helped me a lot. </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.superkids.com%5DSuperKids”>http://www.superkids.com]SuperKids</a> Educational Software Review.<a href=“go%20to%20the%20vocab%20builder%20skills%20or%20w/e,%20and%20find%20the%20SAT%20list”>/url</a> (for each list, they have memroize games, such as matching, etc.)</p>
<p>What more can I say? When I asked this thread, I knew that in order to get 19/19 SC, you don’t have to know all the vocab on every question. You can eliminate a ton of answer choices on the hard questions. Still, I could memorize a 5000 word list, but that would take too much work in that I wouldn’t be able to focus on my schoolwork. I seriously need a plan because I’ll learn a ton of words on the weekend, and then I don’t get time during the weekdays because of homework, and I forget so many of the words by next weekend. THanks for the list jump, I have the material, but I’m just overwhelmed by all these words that I know I must learn in order to have a chance at 700 on CR.</p>
<p>true. idk dude, do lil by lil. my friend and I did this. We took 2 days to complete 1 day list., although thats a lot, its alright. do some words in the morning. do one when you get home. review at night.</p>
<p>another tip, think a/b the words during the day and just spit some out in conversation or paper. also do your enlgish stuff, it’ll help a lot. ALSO, look at the dictionary.com word of the day.</p>
<p>Even with English as your second language (as it is mine), purely cramming over 1000 new words into your head really would not help you that much for the SATs. Personally, I recommend spending your time improving your reading skills by reading sophisticated articles and text books. Most of the vocabulary question can be figured out in context, and I guarantee you will do much better on the critical reading section if you take vocab slowly and just improve reading.</p>
<p>my method is to memorize about 20 words a day and i’d be done when i get it right 5 times in a row…</p>
<p>then you can review those the next day with a new patch of 20… the new 20 you’d do 5 straight times and this one you’d review once in a row… just keep this up for about 1-2 weeks and eventually you’d get them down easily</p>
<p>To truly LEARN the vocab, read widely…I also memorize about 10 new words a day from various sources, but I also read, and while reading, I notice many of the words I’ve memorized. When you see it in context and go “Oh! I know what that means!” and truly understand why/how it was used, then you have LEARNED the word, IMO at least.
Several of the words I’ve memorized i still do not “know” because they’re in my passive vocabulary, and until i use it or come across it in a book or article I still won’t remember it.</p>
<p>haha it’s funny that you mentioned that…</p>
<p>when i started studying vocab i started to see the words everywhere and the definitely quickly popped into my mind</p>
<p>yeah same. you start noticing when you hear it on the t.v, reading (especially scarlet letter), my teachers speaking, etc.</p>
<p>19/19 SC is quite a longshot, but my more realistic goal is to miss no more than 3. On average, one question out of them all will be out of this world while the others I’ve seen before sometimes. I’m getting 2 passage questions wrong per section on average, so that’s almost 10 wrong in total, which is around the range of high 600. Still, learning vocab is definitely helping me with passage questions. I find myself getting a passage question in 2 seconds because of all this vocab work.</p>
<p>Anyone notice that the one section with only 5 vocab questions seems to be extremely difficult? I’m still taking the practice test for CR, but without any of the vocab wrong, I have an 800 with just 3 passage questions missed. With the 5 vocab over two sections, I have a 700 going into the last section. I had like 10 vocab wrong on the real thing, and I’m still convinced that learning as many words as I can will give me at least 15 right in June.</p>
<p>damn man. nice, with your 800. so on your real SAT you only missed 10? and they were all SC? And i’ve only gotten one section of CR that I’ve missed 1. It was pretty sweet =]</p>
<p>well i have studied vocab a lot and i have went from around 24 points taken off to around 14 points taken off…</p>
<p>still can improve that to even less as i need more endurance</p>
<p>yeah. 24 points meaning 24 questions? vocab does help, but I find it only helps with sentence completions, not really in the passages… maybe thats just me.</p>
<p>I think you might have misunderstood me. Without any of the vocab, I would have an 800 from the first two sections(excluding the 3rd). In total, I had like 5 vocab wrong(3 which I got correct were guesses from the very hard questions) and I had 6 passage questions wrong. I got 3 wrong on the last section, so without any vocab wrong, I Would have had like a 750. I can’t remember the exact score, but it’s either a 680 or a 690. So basically that’s still 9 vocab which I was sort of clueless on(I did eliminate many choices, but I still need to try and know as many as I can). For passages, I have to work faster on some of the questions which I’m getting stuck on.</p>
<p>see if this works Rahoul. I read somehwere before, this one guy used momentum to keep up his speed in the math section which is very effective. I was thinking that you and I could try this method in the CR section. I find myself sometimes getting stuck on some of the SC, so I was thinking of trying to just read, try, and if stumped, skip and keep the momentum going and continue the passages. Im pretty sure we both can complete all the passage questions and when coming back on the SC, maybe we would have gained new insight/perspective which could aid us in getting the right choice? Lemme know if you wanna try.</p>
<p>Usually if I get stuck like that, I go to the next SC and come back to it while I’m still on the SC section.. Usually you don’t go back to SC because after you finish that last passage question, there’s a very good chance that you’ll know that you probably missed 1-3 passage questions(which you marked) so you’ll stick with those. When I do sentence completions, I treat it as if I won’t come back to them.</p>
<p>hrm. I’ll do the skip thing. B/c I just have a habit of being determined to solve the that question , right then and there.</p>
<p>You need to understand how to figure out what type of word they are looking for in a SC. For example, you should be able to figure out if they want a ‘negative’ word in the blank, and you should be able to eliminate words that are positive, neutral or unrelated. Then, even in you don’t know what debilitating means, you can figure that it would be the right choice. That’s more reading comprehension and critical thinking that vocab. For an 800, sure, you need to have lots of words in your head as well as critical reading skills, but for a 700, I would say just understanding how to work each type of problem would be more helpful. So.. memorize your top word lists, but make sure you work out the strategy (and your strategy may be different than mine).</p>