help on ssat verbal and reading section!

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<p>hey guys, i need help on verbal and reading section! any tips?
thanks.</p>

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<p>For the verbal:</p>

<p>Well, personally I’m able to handle most of the words because Sparknotes (i think) has a list of 1000 common SAT words (some still show up on ssat!) that my dad made me memorize over summer :(</p>

<p>If you want to do that, you’ll have to go pretty fast to make it in time for the Jan 9 SSAT</p>

<p>Otherwise, you can read some books, highlight vocab, look it up, etc. Try these:
Sherlock Homes-Doyle
The Outsiders-Hinton
Things Fall Apart-Achebe</p>

<p>Another thing that helps is remember the context the word was used in:
Placated most nearly means…
a)Appeased
b)Enraged
c)Surprised</p>

<p>Now let’s say I read a book and I remembered: The gift basket placated the angry dictator, he stopped murdering the masses of protesters in times square.</p>

<p>So, because he stopped killing them, it probably means b is out of the question, and a seems like the better fit of a and c, so the answer is a</p>

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<p>When I took my SSATs in 5th grade, I just got a review book (I think it was Kaplan, not sure) and then looked in the back of the book for the word list and memorized all of them. It helped and I was set.</p>

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<p>Does the SSAT pick its words from Wordlywise? If yes, which book?</p>

<p>I NEED AN ANSWER RIGHT NOW!!</p>