<p>I did try to research beforehand but there are so many mixed opinions about the
potential benefits of studying vocab for the sats. At first, I was going to attempt to memorize Barron's High Frequency list, but then I saw that Xiggi discourages users from using that source. Although there are some other members on this board that support Barron's vocab list so I don't know who to believe... should I even spend my time memorizing words? Or should I devote that time to study roots, prefixes, and suffixes? Or should I just continue doing practice tests and going over those? Thank you for reading my questions..replies would be appreciated</p>
<p>I just mentioned this book in another thread, but I would recommend Word Smart. The list is condensed so it's not massive, and the tips are good.</p>
<p>mcgrawhill! definitely look into it.</p>
<p>Word Smart is very good, Joe. </p>
<p>I also like the list I posted which I think you are already using.</p>
<p>Word Smart is expensive for me :).</p>
<p>Practice prefixes, suffixes, and roots from Gruber's. That's all I did and I missed no questions on CR.</p>
<p>I still support the Barron's 3500 word list, although I'll concede that it's not for everybody, and I haven't tried many other lists in comparison. Also, I looked at lotf629's word list and like it :) Both are very thorough and would require a substantial time commitment and a good deal of patience...unless you already have an expansive vocabulary.</p>
<p>ditto on amb3r's comment.
lotf629's list is quite good, basically barrons without the crappy words, so 1.5k words shorter.</p>
<p>rumor has it that testmaster's small lists before some of the SATs can sometimes predict words on it...but i just think theyre lucky/put previous words which CB reuses.</p>
<p>Xiggi is not the answer to everything, you know. Just because he discourages it doesn't mean that it doesn't work. </p>
<p>I would recommend studying the roots, prefixes, etc... simply because if you're short on time, they ought to help with unfamiliar words.</p>
<p>Another recommendation:
Dedicate some time to reading parts of an unfamiliar word list once or twice a day until your SAT test- lightly reading, not putting 100% strain and stress to try to memorize these - and it ought to help. </p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>