Straight to the point: improving your vocabulary helps you in these three ways on the SAT and ACT:
- You can recognize these new words and make the reading and writing/grammar sections much easier for yourself
- You can use the new “big” words in your essay and improve your score
- You can breeze through the sentence completions (SAT only), saving time and mental energy for the reading passages
Bonus: you can use these new words in your school assignments and college essays!
There are many ways to improve your vocab level, but here are my two favorite (“laziest”) ways to incorporate some new words into your life ASAP:
- The top 100 SAT/ACT vocab words (quizlet) – but you actually have to study them
- Rock the SAT
– not the coolest tunes you’ll ever hear maybe, but an extremely low-effort way to learn new lingo
Most of my students find it easy to learn about 10 new words per week at the depth needed for these tests – so what are you waiting for? Go elevate your linguistic knowledge – and your scores.