Many studying strategies for SAT vocab are actually based on old versions of the SAT,
which means that you may be spending your time studying words that you absolutely don't
need to study.
If you want to know how to study for the new SAT vocabulary, I'm here to help.
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So if you watched my last video, which you can find by clicking the card right up there,
you'll know that the new SAT is based primarily on mid-level vocab.
So the old SAT was infamous for having what we refer to as SAT words, which basically
means that you learn for the purpose of the SAT and then rarely use again in your lifetime.
Mid-level vocabulary, on the other hand, is words that you may not use every day, or that
you may not see every day, but that you may run into when you're reading news articles
or when you're reading books or that you may hear on the news and stuff like that.
In changing its focus to these mid-level words, the SAT is asking you to consider words in
context.
So it's kind of coaching you into reading and thinking about high-level concepts using
words that you're going to see more frequently than fortuitous or anathema or whatever.
Down in the description box below, we have actually a list of 262 mid-level vocab words
for you to study, so if you're unsure what exactly mid-level vocab is—and that's
totally fair—consider visiting our blog post down there and taking a look through
some of those words.
So as I discussed in the last video, SAT vocab isn't as important as it was in the past.
Now you're going to be running into somewhere between like 8 and 12 SAT vocab questions
on the entire test.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't study it, because one of the important things about
the new SAT vocab is that it's considering words in context, and the contexts that they
use on the SAT are things like articles about science or passages from literature, things
where even if you're not engaging with them on a daily basis, as an adult you may very
well be.
So if you take some time to brush up on that vocabulary ahead of time, not only is it going
to help you on the vocab portion, but it's also going to help you better understand the
kinds of passages that you'll be reading in the SAT.
You're going to be more prepared for that, even if you're not quizzed on the words
directly.
So do spend some time brushing up on words like nuance and evoke and desolate, words
that you probably aren't using every day, but that are still important to understand.
So let's get into three different ways to study for SAT vocab.
So the first way, obviously, is going to be taking practice tests.
This isn't just because you're going to get super familiar with the kinds of questions
that show up on the SAT, although of course that is important.
But it also means that you're going to be seeing first-hand the kind of language that
they're going to be using throughout the SAT, and that means that as you're doing
these practice tests, you can take notes on words that you're unfamiliar with, so words
where you don't know the meaning or you don't understand the context, and you can
make flashcards out of those that you can use to study.
So down in the description box, we have links to a whole bunch of free practice tests, so
don't be afraid that you're not going to find any, there's some right down there.
So the second major way to study for SAT vocab is through reading.
And I know that reading sounds like kind of a weird way to study.
It's not about memorization, it really is just about the act of reading.
What I recommend is taking some time in your regular studying practice to add some reading
of sites like The New York Times or like Slate or Wired, or if you're into short fiction,
you can browse sites like Tor.com, which has science fiction and fantasy stories as well
as a lot of articles, or websites like The New Yorker.
The New Yorker fiction section has a lot of short fiction that's more on the realistic
side.
You can also read publications focused on your field.
There's lots of blogs out there about video games or movie or TV or comics or whatever,
and all of those are good places to improve your vocabulary and better understand context.
Just make sure that you're reading high-level, edited work as opposed to reading social media
posts or something, which generally don't go through multiple levels of editing.
As you're reading, go through and take notes on words that are unfamiliar to you so that
you can add them to your studying roster.
So when you're reading The New York Times or Tor.com or whatever, you are engaging with
material that may be more sophisticated than an everyday basis, but that's the kind of
thing that's going to show up on the SAT.
So you're learning more about context and you're learning about how these words are
used, and you're broadening your vocabulary all at the same time, which is the most important
thing in studying for SAT vocab.
You're instead focusing on words that people actually use, even if you yourself are not
speaking them everyday, like you're not texting them to your friends or whatever.
So you can't predict what's going ot be on the SAT ahead of time, that's obvious,
but what you can do is familiarize yourself with words that are unfamiliar to you and
broaden your vocabulary that way, which sets you up better to succeed on SAT vocab.
So the third major way of studying for the SAT is using what's called the waterfall
method of studying.
So some of you may be doing this already, not knowing that it has a name.
But basically what this means is creating a bunch of flashcards with unfamiliar terminology
or whatever concept you need to study, and you put them all in one pile that effectively
means "don't know."
Then, you go through and you sort it into another pile.
The words you do know get put in one pile, for the "do know" pile, and then the words
that you don't know get put into their own pile, a "don't know" pile.
Then you leave the "do know" pile alone for now.
So once you've done that, then you're going to go ahead and go through the "don't
know" pile again.
So you're going to do the exact same thing, split it into multiple piles.
You keep your main "don't need to study" pile over here, then you start a second pile
of words that you know now, and then words you don't know now.
And then you keep dividing it and dividing it and dividing it until you run out of words
that you don't know.
Once you reach the end and you have a good handle on all of the words, then you're
going to work your way through in the opposite direction.
So you're going to be going back through and moving words further and further and further
until you've memorized all of them.
And obviously, you can repeat this over several days.
You don't have to do it all at once.
But this method ensures that you're working primarily on the words you don't know rather
than spending a lot of time studying all of the words regardless of whether or not you
need to know them.
So that's going to be it for this week.
There are obviously a lot more ways to study for the SAT.
Those are just three of them.
So if you have any that you really like, please feel free to leave them down in the comments,
because you never know—somebody else might need them.
Also consider taking a look down at the links down below, because those are going to have
some additional study methods so that you have even more ways to help ensure that you're
going to get a good score on the SAT vocab questions.
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already done 10,000 times when what you really need to know is mid-level vocabulary.
Next time, I'm going to be talking about the SAT essay, which is now optional with
the new SAT, so if you have any questions about that, like if you need to take it or
what you should be planning to write about on it, how much time you have, please leave
a comment down below so that I know to address it within the video.
Thanks again for your time, and happy prepping!
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