Best SAT Test Prep: Boost Your Score with On the Rise Education's Vocab Sets

If you took a digital SAT already and thought, "Hmm. The reading seemed easy," and then when you got your score, you thought, "Boo. I thought I did so well," it might be that you fell into some traps. I always say, "Find the clue to the answer. If you can't find one, it's likely there's something you don't understand." On this test, that THING you don't understand is likely to be VOCABULARY.

Fortunately, help is on the way. The Vocabulady has put together some Quizlet sets to help you out. I'm not going to lie. It's A LOT. These four vocabulary programs contain over a thousand words taken from the Bluebook practice tests that you should know.

They're not as bad as they were way back in the 1980s, but they're still pretty terrible.

There are four sets in the program:

Set A: Easier Words--Weeks 1-12 (about 600 words divided into 12 sets):

The best SAT Test Prep includes knowing many words. No question about it. You'll find the words in this set on the first (baseline) module and the easier second module. You'll also find them on the harder second module, so there's no getting away from them. These are the words that college-bound 11th graders should know, and if you don't know them you need to start studying. NOW.

Click here to study Set A (easier SAT words) with Quizlet.

Set B: Harder Words--Weeks 13-21 (about 400 words divided into 9 sets):

These are the words you'll find on the harder second reading/writing module. They aren't quite as obscure as the words on the SAT in the 1980s (which would be when the Vocabulady took the SAT), but if you don't know them, you're going to struggle. The solution is NOT to get a bunch wrong on the first section so that you aren't subjected to the hard vocab, of course. I mean, if you're reading this, you're probably looking for the best SAT test prep and hoping to get a HIGH SAT score, That means you MUST make it to the harder second module.

Learn, Write, and Test are the BEST!

Click here to study Set B (harder SAT words) with Quizlet.

If you have Quizlet Plus, I recommend that you start with Week 1 in Set A, and use Quizlet Test. Set it for ALL the questions in the set and "multiple choice." Set a timer for 15 minutes, and test yourself. (It doesn't matter if you use term or definition or mix it up.) There are multiple words with the same meaning in the list, so you may be marked wrong when it's actually right. Once you see your score, look at the ones you got wrong, and mark them with a star. Then study them. Test yourself again. Repeat until you're good with all of the Set A. Then do the same thing with Set B.

Set D: Specialized Vocabulary: phrases that negate, prefixes and suffixes, poetry words, transitions, frequently confused words, words with second meanings, and more. These can help you answer a variety of question types, so they're worth studying.

Click here to study Set D (specialized SAT words) with Quizlet.

THE GOOD NEWS: You don't have to learn the words well enough to define them. You don't have to be able to spell them. Even if you know only whether the word is positive or negative, you'll have a better chance of understanding the word and recognizing the clue to the answer. ANY amount of work you can do on vocabulary will help you raise your score. And the more work you do, the better your chances of finding all the clues to reading questions are.

Good luck on your test!