Tips and Strategies for Clearing SAT

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Tips and Strategies for Clearing SAT

The mere thought of cracking the SAT test can be never wrecking for most of the students. However, the test itself is no rocket science. Mentioned below are a few simple guidelines that can help you attain a good SAT score.

    * It is essential to start studying well in time for the SAT test. You should consider studying at least 4 months before the SAT exam

    * SAT has various questions to test diction and reading comprehension skills in the verbal section. Reading newspapers, novels, watching English movies will prove to be quite beneficial. Make sure to check the dictionary for unfamiliar words

    * You should try to incorporate the new learned words in your every day usage

    * It is advisable to make a note of every word that you learn along with its meaning in a small diary. Make sentences with those words so as to comprehend their usage better. Keep this diary handy and scan through the pages whenever you get time

    * It's a good idea to learn groups of words in multiples. Learn prefixes, suffixes and root meanings. Take for example the prefix "ex". It means out or away. Now think of similar words such as exterior, exit, extrinsic or extrapolate. You can easily guess that extrinsic means external to as it is another ex word

    * It is important to hone your writing skills for the writing section in the SAT test. The easiest and most reliable way is to maintain a journal

    * It is important to work on logic puzzles. SAT is known to test logical reasoning skills of a candidate. You can easily purchase logic puzzle books from bookstores and practice on an everyday basis

    * During the course of your SAT preparation if you use calculator frequently, feel free to take the calculator to the exam. However, students who are not well versed with the use of calculator will gain little from its use during the exam.


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