<p>Op,
Generally in school and life, it will be important for you to study and work efficiently rather than just being a “grind” meaning plugging and chugging along doing spending time that isn’t really increasing your scores or your grades. Thus, the most efficient way to study vocab (which is 19 questions on whole SAT) is buy the book direct hits volumes 1 & 2. Alternately, if you google direct hits, you will find flash cards that others have made on the web. Basically, you only need to learn these 400 words total. Please do not study 5000 words to try to get the 19 questions. I like the idea of your dad quizzing you on the 400 words.</p>
<p>As for time management, you should print out some weekly calendars. Discuss with father how much time you will need on each subject in general. Then add a 20% buffer because everyone underestimates how much time something will take. Include times for meals etc and include downtime (TV, surfing internet, texting friends), and put all of this down on the schedule. To study all the time makes it difficult to retain info. When you are studying, you need to be studying; and while you are relaxing, you need to be relaxing. Don’t try to combine the 2.</p>
<p>Like all of Green Button’s solutions.</p>
<p>In general, I am not sure how one is able to change a tiger dad to a non-tiger dad.</p>