<p>I was planning on writing down 70 % of all the words in my dictionary (a small, 800 page one) and their definitions for words I don’t know. Assuming no time constraints for doing this, is this of any use?</p>
<p>No. Because you’d have to remember the 7-10 definitions that you needed for the test, and your method alone wouldn’t guarantee this.</p>
<p>On top of that, it would take a hella long time. You’re better off reading texts that use SAT-style vocab and circling/looking up words you don’t know (keeping the definitions handy in some sort of database, just for reference).</p>
<p>thats EXACTLY what i’m doing RIGHT NOW-(not kidding!) —weird.</p>
<p>And yes- it’s very helpful. I would know- i’ve been doing it for the past 4 days. And dont listen to anyone who tells you its a waste of time- there’s tonnes of words that 1)you already know or 2)are simply useless(eg. obscure animals,tribes,arcan words,etc.)</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Do it my way. Do no extra vocab studying, study for a total of 1 hour for the whole SAT, and still get an 800 in CR. That’s what real men/women do. (jk)</p>
<p>Still, your strategy seems rather absurd, as unless you constantly review your writings you’ll forget lots of stuff. Also, SAT words come from a much smaler set than an 800 page dictionary, so you’ll get a bunch of useless words. I doubt “sepulture” will ever be an SAT word.</p>
<p>i recommend using <a href=“http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdf[/url]”>http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdf</a>
that list. and if you want even more SAT words, use <a href=“http://www.soundkeepers.com/SAT/[/url]”>http://www.soundkeepers.com/SAT/</a> . there are TONS of SAT words for you there.</p>
<p>“I was planning on writing down 70 % of all the words in my dictionary (a small, 800 page one) and their definitions for words I don’t know. Assuming no time constraints for doing this, is this of any use?”</p>
<p>what the hell?
vocab is no more than a hundred or two points on the sat, this is a complete waste of time</p>
<p>I don’t know man, I started already and it isn’t too bad. I’m already on letter C after just half an hour, because I skip a lot of “easy” or “non-SAT” words. I’ll go back to my old SAT barron’s book for the vocab, but just for my general knowledge I think I’ll go along doing some dictionary work while I have time. (Trust me, I have a whole week of nothing to do until my summer science program starts)</p>
<p>dancingbear, thanks for the links. I’ll use them as well.</p>
<p>As youc an tell I really want to make sure there are no holes in my CR skills, because I have never broken 700 on any type of test in that section.</p>
<p>Memorize Barron’s 3500 word list. I found this most effective, albeit there are also GED words in there.</p>
<p>what the hell man
if you are enough of a nerd to do this, then you surely will do well regardless</p>
<p>^ you don’t have to be a nerd to be able to memorize a massive # of words.</p>
<p>if “memorizing a dictionary” ain’t nerdy, I don’t know what is</p>
<p>did i say that?? if i did; i didn’t mean it literally. i meant that whoever i was talking to should randomly pick pages out of dictionary to memorize</p>
<p>. . . . You know what? If you really want to do it, do it. Let’s say you memorize every word. You’re dedicating at least a few hours that will benefit you only potentially during the few short moments on the test. I already mentioned why I believed this wasn’t a great method, but if you really want to spend hours memorizing hundreds of words, it’s your call.</p>
<p>Also, remember what happens after you continue studying–you may get careless. If you’re actually going to do this, I’d recommend being very careful on what you skip. IMO, if you have the intellect to memorize these all, you should have the intellect to figure out a more valuable method.</p>
<p>werd, brotha</p>
<p>imo, studying vocab is somewhat pointless. i mean, is it really that useful to cram some 2000-word vocab list into your head? i think it’s more useful to actually read the newspaper a few times a week, circle a few words you don’t know and look them up (while learning about current events at the same time :)) </p>
<p>however, something that is extremely useful is studying Xiggi’s most common SAT word list derived from the blue book – personal experience, lol</p>
<p>TRUE STORY 
night before SATs, i went through them once and wrote down a few words i didn’t know, looked them up and went to bed. there were about 10-15 of these words, and out of them, 5 showed up on the actual test (6/3 exam)! probably saved me 20-30 points of my CR score. </p>
<p>sooo… yeah. i agree with above posters. whatever floats your boat, but it seems like an excessive waste of time to me…</p>
<p>Murusaki
who said i would do that… do you really think i would waste my time doing that. I was just suggesting it. I’d rather read a book. and memorizing words does not need intellect. just determination</p>