How did you Learn 3000 words?! Please 2300 + students

f0ssil
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:32:07 +0000

Personally I already knew about 30%-50% of the words from prior experiences (mostly reading, I suppose), but I read over a few of those “Top 100/200/500/etc… SAT Words” lists and went over the ones I didn’t already know. About half of the time, my strategy of “read the question, guess at the blank, compare it to the answer choices” yielded me the exact correct answer, and it was helpful 3/4 of the time. Combine that with process of elimination, and you should do very well (provided that you have, or at least can create, a good foundation of a few hundred words - don’t bother with all 3000 though).

Good luck! /2380-scorer, 800 CR