<p>I have Sparknotes 1000, Barron’s 3500, and a list of stems, prefixes, and roots from Barron’s. All the Sparknotes words are in the Barron’s words. Barron’s list comprises of hot words and common words, each labeled in the massive list. They even included flash cards in the book for these common words. I’m taking the test on January 26th, so I don’t think I have time for the 3500 list. </p>
<p>How could I improve this current strategy?— Most importantly, know all roots and stems first and foremost. Then I should focus mainly on the Barron’s Hot words for the SAT; I will keep a lot of my effort on this hot list but keep the Sparknotes list as a secondary one since all of those are in the Barrons and many of the Hot words are probably in the Sparknotes. I want to use these fancy words in my essay to make sure I don’t lose those 2 points for having my essay not have that look that advanced vocab gives and get the 19 or so Vocab questions.</p>
<p>Look,… I think you should not tediously study for Vocab that much. Just choose among them words that you like, use it everyday.</p>
<p>I learn vocab by Thomas system. I divide words into categories: NEGATIVE : POSITIVE : NEUTRAL and look for synonyms, antonyms.
I also put words that have pretty similar form such as: flaccid, lucid, lurid, rapid, intrepid, or sort of to remember better. Some words I just read the first time and remember immediately just like sanguine = blood (old English) = hope</p>
<p>Well Sanguine is in the Sparknotes 1000 lol. The Barron’s list will make you 100% safe, but I don’t see why I shouldn’t study this sparknotes list. What I might do is look over the words but try to find the stem. Stems and roots won’t always get me the definition because the root relates to the definition in a way but doesn’t give the actual definition. </p>
<p>For example, neophyte, I only know that neo is new, so if I were to assume that, might have difficulty in knowing that it means someone who is young or inexperienced. I am aiming for a 700 on the CR section, and if I get even 7 wrong, it’s game over. There are 19 vocab questions but I don’t have long term 6 years to read books and newspaper articles. I’ll try to do a little of each everyday maybe.</p>
<p>To me, even I know all the words, I still make wrong things. You know why? Since the context of the sentence is used sometimes unfamiliar to me.
For example, no one say: “If you have question, please ask me” in my country
Instead we say: “If you have question, portage it”, or “If you have question, should you pose it to me”.</p>
<p>Sadlier-Oxford is my main source. It is really good. The word proclivity appears in SAT is a coincidence with the word in its cover.</p>
<p>i made notecards for the entire PR wordsmart 1st edition & also memorized 5 different sets of sat “hit list” vocab… and i knew every single word on the test, save i think 1 or 2 that weren’t the answers anyways.</p>
<p>ephemeral2 how long did it take you to memorize all of those voc words tho? im plannin on takin the sat on jan 26th too but i dont think i can start studyin yet because i have finals before xmas break :/</p>
<p>Well you should start memorizing for sure, doing nothing=foolish. Look up sparknotes 1000 and this list is pretty good because all of these words are in the famous Barron’s 3500 word list. Also, I think that the Sparknotes How to prepare for the SAT section that I’m thinking of has a roots and stems list so I would look at that as well.</p>