tiger_max22

I only have like a week and a half to study for the vocab section of the SSAT;

What is the best way to study for the SSAT??
I already have 2 books to complete.

GoBigRed12

I've heard that if you say vocab words while jump roping it works, but i'm not sure.
Personally I did not study for the SSAT all and I was in the 94th percentile, and I got into sps so I wouldn't sweat it.

TomTheCat

I'm not sure studying for the vocab part really works. I took the SSAT without any studying and I scored in the 99th percentile on the vocab section and 99th percentile overall. I credit my score with the fact that I'm a casual reader. I don't think studying is really helpful for the SSAT.

What you could do, however, is study some root words and prefixes. If you know the meanings of those, chances are you'll be able to guess more accurately with certain words should you ever need to. For example, if you get a question like "Coalition:Team::Couch:..." you know that a team is, well, a team. But what's a coalition? It has "co" at the front, which means "together" so maybe it's a synonym for "team?" So then, obviously, you're looking for a synonym for couch.

I know that sounded a little convoluted (what does "con" mean?) but I hope it's a little helpful ;-)

mpicz

Roots will help you will 1-4 questions at most of the vocab section. Ill tell you that right now..they like putting words on there that you just have to know, I know practically every root there is and it didn't help me. I did alrite..but the roots werent much help.

If your gunna study anything for the section, study that though.

leekleek123

Personally the roots have never helped me at all, as it tends to be that they lack usefulness in many cases (de- is often depicted as "down" or something negative, not the case for "delighted" as you may know.)

Believe it or not, studying flash cards is probably one of the best ways to improve your vocabulary quickly if you've never read anything more difficult than Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Remember that you have to study ALOT of them, literally from the start to end of Kaplans '09 glossary. I remember taking the test and something like 20 of the synonyms were from the words I studied (4 more that I naturally knew).

Studying roots doesn't hurt, but know that they can be misleading from time to time.

mpicz

I think you got lucky finding words that you had previously studied in my opinion...or maybe its because I used princetons book.

Senay

I lOVEE Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. My 6th grade favorite was The Land.

I actually recommend doing roots, prefixes, and suffixes. It definitely helped me on the SSAT. Like there was this Pedagogue word that they wanted me to find the synonym off and I remember Peda means teach (or something) so I picked teacher.

tiger_max22

If I looked at the word pedagogue, I would've thought it had something to do with feet and a maybe religious place... Lol, I don't think roots will help me that much...
I don't know a lot of vocab, so I'm trying to cram everything within that time.
Reading Jane Eyre did help a bit too

Senay

nope it's definitely teacher. but i get what you mean with the gogue part

leekleek123

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

or my friend claims Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is good, I read it and while there were quite a few words the book was not my taste.