Sentence Completion (aka the Vocab Questions) On this one, you really should take my advice, because I only got one wrong out of 7 SATs …
Vocab
I Meant Spurious…Not Specious (whoops)
Vocab
Words: Beware of the “Easy” Ones (they can be the trickiest)
The vocabulary aspect of the SAT remains my favorite part of this whole project. I’m referring here to both the “Vocabulary Section,” as well as the Critical Reading passages.
I never tire of learning new words, parsing words I Read More →
Vocab
That It Should Come To This!*
I may have been the only one in the audience of Hamlet last week noting the plethora of SAT rich and erudite vocabulary words that were ballyhooed on stage, over the course of the evening:**
Auspicious and chary, circumscribed, confound, Read More →
Vocab
Olfactory
Olfactory: Adj. or Noun. Concerning the sense of smell.
“Heading into NYC. Am anticipating an olfactory wonderland out there. I may distract myself diagramming sentences from today’s paper.”
No idea whether this word shows up on the Read More →
Vocab
Dyscalculic
Adjective or Noun
Dyscalculia or math disability is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending simple mathematics. It is akin to dyslexia and includes difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, learning math Read More →
Vocab
What Is Not to Love About SAT Vocabulary?
From what I can tell, the SATs are universally loathed.
But I ask you, what is so wrong with learning some new vocabulary words? Or even just bringing back into rotation some long forgotten or infrequently used words?
Here are Read More →
Press
Compare SAT Scores with Julie Klam, Laura Zigman, and Ann Leary
Perfect Score Project: Hash Hags: Interview by PerfectScoreProject
I had a lot of fun doing an interview the other day with Laura Zigman, Julie Klam, and Ann Leary on their wonderful WHDD show Hash Hags.
Turns out Read More →
Tips
Motivating A Teenager to Study For the SATs
Even though this is my Perfect Score Project — and definitely not my son’s (though it sure would be nice if he did better as a result of my SAT obsession) — figuring out how to motivate a non type-A Read More →
Essay
SAT Essay
For some reason, I had a lot of pre-test anxiety about the Essay, which was a new addition to the SAT since I originally took it back in 1982. It wasn’t necessarily logical, more of a nice resting place for Read More →
