SATs Are Coming: Pay Attention and Increase Your Vocabulary
With the SATs rapidly approaching on January 28, 2012, students need to be focused on the three bodies of material covered: vocabulary, math, and grammar. One of the best ways to quickly enlarge and deepen your vocabulary is to PAY ATTENTION to what you read and what you hear, noting—as in mentally noting and then writing down—any and every word you don’t know. Recently I was listening to the audiobook version of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and was struck how, IN THE FIRST TWO MINUTES, I heard many words I teach over and over again for the […]
