SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
July 25th, 2010 | 
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SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
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This portable, powerful SAT study tool includes: 500 essential SAT vocabulary words with definitions, parts of speech, pronunciations, synonyms, and sample sentences in context SAT words separated into three difficulty levels to help students at all learning levels study effectively 2-color interior to make navigating the book easier and more interactive and fun
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Hot Words for the SAT
Updated and expanded to reflect the vocabulary and format of the most recent SATs? Critical Reading sections, Hot Words for the SAT presents and defines more than 365 words that appear most frequently on SAT exams. These are words that test takers need to know in order to achieve a high Critical Reading score. The book is divided into 37 lessons, each consisting of dozens of illustrative sentences and a thematic word cluster. Each cluster contains words having similar meanings or words that app
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Review by Sean H. K. Lee for SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
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Kind of like flashcards which you get a word on one side and answers on the other side, except this is a book and has three items per page. This is great book to carry around and kill time while expanding your vocabulary, not necessarily for SAT but also MCAT and other standardized tests, or simply to learn. Highly recommended.
Review by Meredith B. Trunk for SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
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Great way to get your high schooler up to speed on vocabulary needed for successful navigation of the SAT.
Review by Gilgamesh for SAT Vocabulary Prep Level 1
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After my son took the SAT once with virtually no prep, and mediocre scores, he used this book along with the second volume of the same Kaplan series. He used them over about a 3-4 month period and marked off the words he knew or learned, concentrating on the ones he didn’t know. Each book contains 500 words, 3 to a page, and each book is divided about equally into basic, intermediate and advanced words. The book is similar to using flash cards – on each page appear 3 words, together with their phonetic pronunciations. Then, on the back page, is found the definition, a sentence using the word in context, and, very helpful, a list of several synonyms. (Some of the synonyms are also SAT level words, so if you really read everything, you will actually learn many more than 500 words per book). So, you have to flip the page to see the definition, just like you would with flash cards. My son raised his SAT writing score from 560 from 730, and his SAT reading score from 640 to 730. He also used the College Board practice test book, which was very useful, but these 2 books were certainly a key factor in his improvement. Highly recommended, but be sure you give yourself plenty of time, several months, to work through these. Unless you have a photographic memory, it will take time to assimilate all this material. But, if you do study them, you will almost certainly be rewarded with a higher test score. You will also find yourself suddenly hearing, and understanding, a lot of words on National Public Radio that probably just washed over you before. And you will see a lot of the same sophisticated words in the New York Times.
Review by Mike Toy, Lighthouse Educational Services and Consulting for Hot Words for the SAT
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This book is a must buy!!! I’ve been an SAT instructor for a long time and this is the best book for the verbal section! This will boost your vocab like nothing else!!! There are three sentences made for each vocab word so you “really” understand the meaning of each word. It’s not just a list of words and their definitions and you have to memorize it. Words being used in sentences really aid the memory and will totally boost your scores on the SAT!!! I highly recommend it. (…)
Review by Paul Pscolka for Hot Words for the SAT
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I am a full time SAT tutor and have almost all my students study this book. It is perhaps the most popular book of its kind, and for good reason– Carnevale’s effective approach to acquiring new SAT words. She presents words by theme. For example, the first chapter’s theme, Cat Got Your Tongue? presents “Words Relating to Using Few Words or Being Quiet.” They are: brevity, concise, laconic, pithy, quiescent, reticent, succinct, taciturn, and terse. I find that studying words in categories, as presented in this book, is an effective way for students to (1) learn more words and (2) internalize the sometimes subtle differences between synonyms. The book also has several sentences for each word to illustrate the word’s proper context.
On the other hand, there are several mistakes in the book. For example, the introduction refers to the books approach as yielding, “expoential vocabulary growth” (the “n” in “exponential” is missing). In chapter 9, the book says correct use of “miserly” is “Using a sheet of paper on only one side is a sign of a miserly individual.”
These mistakes take away only slightly from the book’s value since the concept is so solid and the words appear so often on tests.
Review by A. Chai for Hot Words for the SAT
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I am a mom with a 10 year old who is begging to study SAT words. (Don’t ask why…she just really wants to learn them) I saw this book being used by the 10th graders at the local private school and I was very impressed. The organization of words into groups with similar meanings is fabulous. It really helps you to talk about those “shades of meaning” that you get with different word choices. Of course, these are not the most difficult of the SAT words, but I think it is perfect for the average to above average student. The highly gifted child who is taking the SAT as a senior should probably know the majority of these words already, but for most students I think it is perfect.
HERE IS THE TRUE SECRET to the vocab section. Go through the entire 10 test prep book and underline each and every word that you do not know. (The college board book with the cheap grey paper, costs about 20 bucks). Then make 3×5 cards. By the time you have gone through all 10 sample tests, you will know all the vocab you need to know. This is how my 12 year old got a 750 on the verbal last year.
Review by M. L. Courtney for Hot Words for the SAT
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The vocab in this book is very appropriate for a low scorer who must raise their score, but if you are a high scorer you will be unimpressed by most of the words. I ended taking out about 5 words from each of the 30+ lessons and making my own word lists, not to say that those words didn’t help me. My score rose 70 points, but I also made my own word lists and flash card using words from here and 10 Real SATs.The exercises are awful. The other words in the analogies are more diffcult than the vocab. I ended up ignoring all of them.If you are looking for a quick way to study for the SAT vocab, then buy flashcards. In the end that was the most useful format.
Review by HS English teacher for Hot Words for the SAT
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I have used this book in my high school junior English classes, and for most students it is very helpful. It’s true that it’s harder to write quizzes on the words because of the cluster method, but that’s a teacher’s problem, not a student’s. The clusters do help them remember words that are related. I’ve talked to SAT prep instructors who highly recommend this book. Unless you’re a vocab star, give it a try.