What's An Effective Way of Studying in a Week?

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>I'm planning to study in 7 days during my Thanksgiving break and take the SAT in December. Should I study CR for 1 hour, Writing for 1 hour, and Math for 1 hour each day and then take a practice SATafterwards? Or should I mix it up with Writing and Math 1 day, and Cr (section I need the most improving) on 1 day and then take a practice SAT every 2 days? Or math for 3 hours 1 day, Cr for 3 hours 1 day, and Writing 3 hours for 1 day and then take a practice test every 3 days? I'm open to any suggestions, those above were only examples and are not limited. </p>

<p>I need to get at least a 2000+ in December!!!!</p>

<p>THANKS!</p>

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<p>Set very specific goals. That means, get your hands on some kind of vocab list, and aim to learn every single word on it by the end of your study period. Get a couple hundred math and writing practice questions, and aim to finish all of those as well. Don't bother with a "practice test." Rather, incorporate that test into your studying, breaking it up into sections of practice questions and doing those as part of your study. Good luck! I abandoned practice tests and just did problem after problem after problem...got me my perfect score</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot b4nnd20, that is really helpful! What vocab list would you prefer? Meaning which one did you use to achieve your perfect score?</p>

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<p>I actually didnt use a vocab. list since that kind of knowledge is my natural strong point. I don't mean to be cocky, I did have to practice a LOT of math, trust me lol. But thankfully vocab. lists are really easy to find if you want one. Try google?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.takesat.com/wordlist.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.takesat.com/wordlist.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>here's one that looks decent.</p>

<p>Here's some more:
<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter15section3.rhtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter15section3.rhtml&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter15section4.rhtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/newsat/chapter15section4.rhtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.syvum.com/sat/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.syvum.com/sat/&lt;/a>
^scroll down to "vocabulary builder"</p>

<p>I looked through them and they all look promising. The key to learning these is to make 1 sentence with each word. This helps cement it in your mind...learning definitions is hard, I always forget new words unless I saw them in a sentence.</p>

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<p>i think that the second link to the sparknotes is really good. it really helps.</p>

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<p>really nice information.. do you guys think its possible for me to memorize 1000 words (sparknotes) in 2 weeks? im taking SAT in december</p>

<p>so like 100 words per day..? i dont know what do you guys think</p>

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<p>Who cares what we think? try your best. Even if you only memorize 800 that's still great.</p>

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<p>You likely know a lot/most of them. Although that doesn't guerantee you'll be able to successfully utilize them on the SAT.</p>

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<p>Study your weakest area by drilling. If you're weak in critical reading, for example, buy many many books and just keep doing critical reading sections. </p>

<p>I wouldn't know how to study if you're weak in all areas because my only weakness was in CR, but I did very well on my last SAT's using this method. I did four sections of math, three sections of writing, and wrote three essays the night before the SATs though.</p>

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<p>Siva_07, You will be able to learn 100 words per day. The problem will be how much you retain. Last year when I was studying for the SAT, I learned 100 words a day and rembered 50% of them. So I went through again and relearned the ones I forgot. It turned out that I would always remember 50% of any list. My list started out at 1200 went to 600, 300, 150, 75.... For you to learn 1000 words is no problem; however, it will be hard for you retain all that information.</p>