How to memorize (and REMEMBER) 3,000 vocabuary words in two months.

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<p>How to memorize over 3,000 vocabulary words in 2 months.</p>

<p>Type up four or five words on PowerPoint and print them out in note card format. One side has the word; the other, the definition and a sentence that will help you remember the word. The sentence should be a rhyme or any other mnemonic device to quickly help you remember the word. Do this over again for all the vocabulary you want to study.</p>

<p>Okay, here’s the trick, the brain remembers best right before you go to sleep. So, after you take your shower and right before you jump to bed, read all you note cards that you have made (for me, usually about 20 so its about 100 words). As you read the note cards, try hard to internalize the words. As long as you remember them for at least 10 seconds after you read the card, it will be fine. </p>

<p>Immediately go to sleep. Don’t listen to music, don’t talk to anybody. This is the time your brain defragments whatever you have learned during the day. Because the last thing you learned was the words, the brain will decode and store them easily in your long-term memory.</p>

<p>When you wake up, read all your note cards again. I know, you may not remember all or most of the words, but its okay. Just read your note cards once again and try to memorize it. </p>

<p>Read your note cards again that night, following the same previous steps. </p>

<p>When you wake up in the morning on the second day, you will find that you have been able to remember 70-90 percent of your new vocabulary. That’s up to 90 words in 2 days! Increase your load as you go, or decrease it according to the amount of words you plan to study.</p>

<p>This is the best advice for rote memorization quick and fast.</p>

<p>I bought the Barrons SAT in June and I have memorized over 3,000 words this way. No joke. </p>

<p>The power of the brain is infinite.</p>

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<p>I memorized barrons… i read TOO indepth in the easy lvl vocab ones… therefore i got a 710. its always the easy questions that are the hardest. The hard ones are usually not hard…</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s necessary to memorize that many words in order to do well on CR. I only have the rocket review words memorized (about 300) and I still got an 800.</p>

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<p>i remembered gruber’s vocab. about 3700 words in one month time. Then reviewed before the oct SAT. </p>

<p>I hate using flashcards, so much of a hassle to carry around. I just ripped the pages from the SAT book and had them in my hand everywhere I went. I think constant repetition of the words and review is the best way. </p>

<p>Just by looking at the word 5-6 times every 2-3 days and going back every week to review works very well! Also, I hand group synonyms on the margins so when I review, i reviewed many groups at a time!</p>

<p>That was my quickest way. I hardly ever read books. Maybe 2-3 books a year at the most on my free time! I just read some magazines. managed to get a 740 on verbal by practicing SAT books and vocab!</p>

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<p>wow lol. whatever happened to plain reading :P</p>

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<p>gyros321…same for me!!</p>

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<p>Werd, amcantu.</p>

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<p>Just read…don’t try and memorize 3000 words. Read Frankenstein and like Heart of Darkness. Knowledge is power.</p>

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<p>i didnt memorize any, and i improved 70 points on october. just go with your instinct (thats what i did) and relax. just read</p>

<p>if u really think u wanna memorize, i recommend the sparknotes hot 250 words list. most vocab from the test are on there and its not 3000 words…</p>

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<p>Don’t memorize words. That’s sad.</p>

<p>If you need to memorize something, make it ROOT WORDS. Or just READ. :)</p>

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<p>i don’t think you need memorization.
but if you really want to do some, you’ll get the most bang for the buck
with the 250-word list from sparknotes, here:</p>

<p><a href=“SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides”>SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides;

<p>with it, you’ll at the very worst be able to deduce which answer is correct, by marking all the other non-crazy-hard vocabulary options in the sentence completion incorrect.</p>

<p>edit: although, i can see why kids might once have needed flash cards for the old-sat analogies.
those questions were effin’ difficult!</p>