Whats a good book to learn some SAT words?

[chiwawa626]

Whats a good book to learn some SAT words? Anything that really did the trick, i know if its just like word-definition i wont learn anything, mabey something more visual or some sorta game type thing? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[jpsj82]

by any chance are you taking the test tomorrow?


but to answer your question - no i don't.

 

[b0mbrman]

There's a series...Called "Mastering the SAT" or something like that. They've got wordlists on there like mad.

 

[Random Variable]

I believe there is a novel that incorporates many of the SAT words. I can't think of its name, though.

 

[Imdmn04]

Barron's sat guide with the 3000 words list, strange thing that most of these words are the same as from GRE study book

 

[Mangos]

Anything by Barrons or Princeton Review. Kaplans has some good stuff, too.

 

[b0mbrman]

<< I believe there is a novel that incorporates many of the SAT words. I can't think of its name, though. >>


That would be a pretty good study aid...

 

[manly]

<< I believe there is a novel that incorporates many of the SAT words. I can't think of its name, though. >>



I don't know if it's still relevant in this millenium, but you might be referring to Word Smart.

There are some others of course.

 

[gwlam12]

i have SAT vocab books im trying to get rid of. PM me!!

 

[MadMark]

I think there is a book titled: Hot Words for the SAT.
I borrowed it from a friend the week before I took the SAT back in high school and it was pretty helpful in terms of the vocab section. But again, that was like 6 years ago. =) Should be available tin Barnes and Noble if you look.


Lucks,
Mark.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

any book with words! i recommend read as much as possible whenever possible. being able to understand words in context is much more helpful than just trying to memorize words/definitions

<---- 750 verbal 🙂

 

[RalphWiggum]

How about the dictionary? Lotta words in there...

 

[manly]

The thing is, and I'm referring to when the exam was just the SAT and not the SAT I, that historically there were a bunch of words that were highly prominent in the verbal sections.

Having that vocabulary neither means you're actually learned, or particularly well-versed in English. It just meant that you had memorized a bunch of SAT words that kept on showing up on the exam.

And like I said, Word Smart (and a later Word Smart 2) were a great compilation of this vocabulary. And others have mentioned similar titles. Whether those titles are still relevant is beyond me.

So if your objective was to develop a vocabulary to maximize your score in the verbal section, rote memorization was a much better/faster way than to actually read literature.

 

[yakko]

You can get one from Webster called hte dictionary.