Kategoria BISAC: Study Aids >> SAT

Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that...

The reading section of the SAT is essentially a vocabulary test. With a few exceptions, if you know the word, you will probably be able to answer the question correctly. Thus, it is crucial that you improve your vocabulary. Even if you have a strong vocabulary, you will still encounter unfamiliar words on the SAT.

Many students write off questions, which contain words, they don't recognize. This is a mistake. This book introduces numerous techniques that decode unfamiliar words and prod your memory of words you only half-remember. With these techniques, you will often be...

Want a superior vocabulary? Let Direct Hits help.

Words are our tools for learning and communicating. A proficient and robust vocabulary is critical to success in school, business, the professions, AND standardized tests such as the PSATand SAT. But even the most dedicated students dread memorizing long lists of seemingly random words.

Like its companion book "Volume 1," "Direct Hits Toughest Vocabulary of the SAT Volume 2 "offers an approach that places the words in a context students can easily understand and remember. The books include the following features:

- Over 250 of the...

Comprehensive Prep for ACT Verbal

Every year, students pay $1,000 and more to test prep companies to prepare for the verbal sections of the ACT. Now you can get the same preparation in a book.

The verbal sections are not easy. There is no quick fix that will allow you to "beat" the ACT, but it is very learnable. If you study hard and master the techniques in this book, your score will improve--significantly.

The ACT cannot be "beaten." But it can be mastered--through hard work, analytical thought, and by training yourself to...

• provides a definition using plain and simple language
• provides a picture that explains this definition and a way to remember the word and its definition
• explains the usage of the word using some sample sentences
• lists some synonyms, antonyms, related/additional words...