I have prepared vocabulary for a year. When I first came to America, I memorized a random SAT vocabulary. After I recite this article, it will be easier to read. But because there are many inaccurate explanations in that vocabulary book, sometimes I will be confused when I understand the article and do the questions. Later, I recited the book again, and the effect was not very good. After that, I used Xu Yi's book Complete Classification of SAT High Frequency Vocabulary. Xu teacher's book classifies words in different levels, and most of them are bilingual, which is the most accurate explanation I have ever seen. I strengthened my memory of some high-frequency words and corrected some wrong or inaccurate memories, thus improving the ability of SAT to read articles and other English articles.

Lexical summary

1, words need to be reviewed frequently and improved by reading. Only in this way can we form a sense of language and save time.

2. Recite the most common English definitions of words, because some words are difficult to explain clearly in Chinese.

read

The improvement of reading needs to start from two aspects:

The first aspect is the cultivation of reading ability. Reading ability needs to be improved by memorizing words and reading a lot. When I took the PSAT for the first time, my reading score was 53, because I just arrived in the United States at that time, and my words were weak and my reading speed was slow. Because studying in the United States requires reading textbooks and memorizing some vocabulary, reading ability and scores have been improved to some extent.

The second aspect is problem-solving skills. In the early stage of preparing for the SAT, we should downplay the importance of skills, because reading ability is the core of the SAT and an essential ability to study in the United States. However, when reading ability is improved to a certain extent, it will encounter bottlenecks. Sometimes articles and topics can be understood, but they just make mistakes. At this time, the cultivation of skills is crucial. The online SAT OG course of time focus education is very helpful to me. I learned what critical thinking is and how to thoroughly understand the arguments, arguments and argumentation methods of the article. With the real questions and OG, my score was further improved from about 600 to 100.

Read the abstract

1, you need to find a method that suits you. Some students may skip the examples in the article, but for me, skimming these examples helps to strengthen my understanding of the argument. Similarly, some students may be used to reading through the article before reading the topics, but I prefer to mark the line numbers first, then read these topics every two or three paragraphs, and do the questions and mark them immediately after reading them. I tried other people's methods, but the effect was very bad. It may take a long time to find the most suitable method, but once the most suitable method is found, the effect of scoring is very obvious.

2. Many students like to read a lot of novels to improve their reading ability, but the main part of the SAT reading part is articles with strong objectivity, and the two types of articles are very different. The latter has more standardized grammar, more sophy vocabulary and clearer logical relationship. Students who have just started preparing for the SAT may wish to prepare such articles first (and strengthen vocabulary preparation at the same time). For the selected reading of literary works, Shakespeare's plays are not suitable for preparing for the SAT, because many grammatical phenomena (such as prepositional objects and previous verbs, as well as the syntax of some imperative sentences) and vocabulary will never appear in the SAT and non-literary assignments in universities. Other works with too much slang and oral expression, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are also not suitable for preparing for the SAT. But the reading I did in American history and physics class helped me a lot (mainly textbooks).

composition

The improvement of composition is a long-term process. When I first came to study in the United States, I felt that my well-written articles were surrounded by many unnatural places by teachers. English teaching in China places too much emphasis on passive voice (which should be avoided as much as possible) and imprecise usage, while English writing emphasizes the diversity of vocabulary and sentence patterns (but avoid lengthy usage). At the same time, some important grammatical details, such as dangling modifiers, are also ignored in senior high school English classes. Therefore, the improvement of composition also needs to be based on reading a large number of standardized English discourses, and needs the guidance of people familiar with English writing.

SAT composition has a strong regularity, so the significance of preparing for the exam in advance for the high score of the composition is immeasurable. Preparing some examples and templates can greatly save the time of writing a composition. At that time, Jing Lei, the top teacher of Time Focus Education SAT, helped me to classify the composition topics and instructed me how to start, how to end, how to write main paragraphs and how to prepare examples. At the same time, a large number of full-score compositions in Xu Yi's SAT Full-Score Composition Collection-Raiders of Sat Writing Must Kill have also provided great help for my writing.