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While it seems at the start of the book that it is very anti-Princeton Review/Kaplan, it has good reason. Throughout the early chapters, the book constantly emphasizes the "cracking" the SAT I is not the way to do well on the test. It uses the analogy (an analogy that I thought was pretty good) that just like in baseball, a baseball player would not memorize every single scenario in which he/she could experience in a game. | 80 MCGRAW-HILL S SAT THE COLLEGE HILL METHOD FOR SAT WORD POWER A strong vocabulary is essential to achieving a top SAT critical reading score. But building a solid vocabulary doesn t mean just memorizing thousands of flashcards. In fact the way most students use flashcards is not only dull but utterly ineffective. Believe it or not you ve been using a much better system for years. If you re a normal 16-year-old you have about a 40 000-word vocabulary. Did you memorize all those words with flashcards No. You didn t study them at all. You just absorbed them by trying to understand and communicate with the people around you. When you take words out of the context of real communication your brain s vocabulary machine doesn t work very well. So don t just study flashcards to memorize word meanings in isolation. Instead follow these rules while using the College Hill flashcard system which is discussed below to study the words in the lessons in this chapter. Surround Yourself with Good Language When you were a baby you were surrounded by people with much stronger vocabularies than yours so your vocabulary grew very quickly. As you got older however your vocabulary grew to match that of the people you hung out with so its growth slowed. How do you rev it up again Talk to smart adults. Hang around friends with good vocabularies. Read collegelevel books. Watch documentaries on television rather than mindless game shows soap operas and reality shows. Listen to National Public Radio. Read The New York Times Op-Ed page and Sunday Magazine. Read articles and stories from Harper s Atlantic Monthly New Yorker The Nation and Scientific American. Use Your New Vocabulary with Friends and Family To build your vocabulary you have to try out your new words. If you feel self-conscious about trying out new words and most teens do find a close friend or relative to practice vocabulary with maybe a friend who s also prepping for the SAT. On the next couple of pages we ll give you lots of
