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Improving your vocab over the holidays

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

You’ve still got leftover turkey in the fridge, finals are approaching, and you’re about to start a well-deserved break from school. You may be thinking that studying is the last thing you want to do during your break, but if you’re taking a standardized test in the spring, now is a great time to catch up on all that vocab you know you should have been working on all fall.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: a large and diverse vocabulary is the fastest and easiest route to a great verbal score on your PSAT/SAT/ACT/SSAT/ISEE/take-your-pick.

Improving your vocab doesn’t have to require hours of work per day, and it doesn’t necessarily have to feel like work. (more…)