tailieunhanh - word smart ii phần 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'word smart ii phần 8', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Here s what we said in Word Smart J about vocabulary for the SAT Despite all the talk about scholastic aptitude and reasoningability the verbal Scholastic Aptitude Test SAT is primarily a vocabulary test. If you don t know the words on the test you WO . . I cnrn a good score. It s as simple as that. If you learn every word on the main word list in this book you ll have a big advantage on the SAT. The bigger your vocabulary the better you 11 do. But not every word on the main list is the sort of word that is tested on the SAT. If you re getting ready to take the SAT or a similar standardized test you should focus your attention on the words in the following list which we call the Hit Parade. The Hit Parade is a list of the words tested most frequently on the SAT in order of their frequency on the SAT. We created the Hit Parade by using a computer to analyze all released SATs. Princeton Review students use the Hit Parade to get the maximum possible mileage out of their vocabularies and improve their verbal SAT scores. Not all Hit Parade words appear on our main word list but all of them have appeared on recent SATs. We ve included short definitions to make it easier for J you to learn the words. These definitions aren t always ị exactly like the ones you ll find in the dictionary or the 1 main word list of this book they re the definitions of the words as they are tested on the SAT. Keep in mind that these are not the only words you need ito know for the SAT. They re just the words that have been tested most frequently in the past the words that the Educational Testing Service s question writers tend to come back to over and over again. Also keep in mind that the words near the top of the list are more likely to turn up than the words near the bottom. Some SATs are absolutely loaded with Hit Parade words others don t contain as many. One of the most VOCABULARY FOR THE SAT 223 important things the Hit Parade will teach you is the level of the vocabulary on the test. .