Students who experience the SAT for the first time have the same takeaway--the vocabulary was so hard! They lament, "If only I had a better vocabulary, I would have gotten a much better score." Here are my thoughts for improving your vocabulary:
1. Buy an electronic dictionary and look up any words you do not understand immediately. Read the sentence again and see if it makes sense now;
2. Circle any words you do not understand in the course of your reading. Buy the NY Times and read it this summer;
3. Realize that if you speak another language such as Spanish, French or Latin there may be a similar word in those languages that is close to the meaning in English;
4. When doing sentence completions on practice SAT tests, look up all the word choices you do not understand regardless of whether those words are the correct answers. Remember there is a specific group of words that the testmakers use, so todays incorrect answer may be tomorrow correct answer.
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