<p>I went to a site that gave you the top 100 vocab words for the SAT in 10 question tests. Well, I got 2 questions right on the SAT just because I went to that site, and 1 question right from taking an old SAT and seeing the word ‘hackneyed’. Did anyone else have a similar experience? </p>
<p>P.S. I did this at like 930 pm the night before the SAT.</p>
<p>the same thing happened to me:</p>
<p>i read the word ‘amalgam’ before the May SAT and it was in one of the sentence completions.
The exact same word camew again in June!!!</p>
<p>i just glanced the sparknotes top 1000 word list and saw several words there on the june sat. including demagogue, which i did not previously know.</p>
<p>however, there were many more of the “common” words that i already knew, including elucidate, indignant, etc.</p>
<p>but it helped me</p>
<p>If you study a vocab list, 1 or 2 is BOUND to come up :)</p>
<p>dumb luck, I think</p>
<p>the whole point is that you saw the vocabulary and recognized it…the point on what they’re testing you on.</p>
<p>Opposite happened for me… I looked at a vocab list about a week before the test and learned some words I didn’t previously know… At least two were on the test, and I could not remember the meaning!</p>