Information about the SAT!

Sentence Completions
This type of question test your knowledge of the meanings of words and your ability to recognize relationships among the parts of a sentence so that you can choose the word or words that the best complete each sentence.

Passage-Based Reading
This type of question tests your ability to read and understand passages taken from any of the following categories: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and fiction or nonfiction narrative. Based upon reading selectios ranging from 100 to about 850 words, passage-based reading questions may require you to
* Recognize the meaning of a word as used in context
* Interpret specific information presented in the passage
* Analyze information in one part of the passage in terms of information presented in another part of the passage
* Evaluate the author's assumptions or identify the logical structure of the passage

Now sometimes we think that vocabulary on the test doesn't matter BUT your wrong, it does matter! In a Word: Yes.

Vocabulary as such is not tested on the SAT. Until a few years ago, the exam included antonym questions, which required you to pick a word whose meaning was the opposite of some other word. Those questions have been eliminated.
That leaves indirect and hiden vocabulary questions--of which there are plenty.
1. In both cases, the broader, more varied, and more accurate your vocabulary knowledge, the better your chances are of answering these questions quickly and correctly.
2. The better your vocabulary knowledge, the easier you'll find it to understand both the critical reading passages and the sentence completion items (which are, in effect, mini-passage, each one sentence long).

Fortunately, the kinds of words that regularly appear on the SAT, as with so much else on the exam, fall into definite patterns.

The hard words on the SAT are hard words of a particular sort: scholastic words that deal, broadly speaking, with the manipulation and communication of ideas--words like ambiguous, amplify, arbitrary, and arcane. The better you master this sort of vocabulary, the better you'll do on the exam.

Tips for vocabulary
There are some topics you can easily cram. Vocabulary isn't one of them.
Try to begin your vocabulary study several weeks before the exam. Take 15 to 20 mins a day to learn new words.
Learn the definition of each word; examine the sample sentence provided in the Word List; learn the related words; and try writing a couple of sentences of your own that include the word.

Get into the habit of reading a little every day with your dictionary nearby.

Do the best you can! but something important be confident!

God Bless! :)

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