What's my best strategy for vocab?

RahoulVA
Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:54:48 +0000

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.

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.