Common S.A.T. Words

Designed to test a student's language skills, the words on the verbal section of the S.A.T. are notoriously tough, so you have to be smart, uhh - make that sagacious, if you want to ace it. There's a mix of vocab, that is to say its eclectic, including many words you won't hear in everyday mundane conversation. For instance, top S.A.T. words also include querulous (which means complaining - which is also how a lot of teens feel about a test that can have such deleterious effects, if they don't do well.) The test is old, okay, venerable and debuted in 1926. Its supposed to test how well seniors will do in college, but some people feel its kind of bogus, that is to say, spurious. The 3 hour 45 minute test can be draining, or in S.A.T. speak, enervating. The best way students can prepare is to read a lot which can help them pick up old fashion words that might show up on the test but aren't used much anymore, that are, in other words, anachronistic But at least in 2005 one of the least popular verbal sections was dropped. Yes that's right, analogies are to the S.A.T. what Charlie Sheen is to Two and a Half Men, evanescent, vanished. In fact, the S.A.T. has gone through a lot of changes since it began. Even what the letters in its name stand for has changed. From SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST to SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST to nothing. Now it's officially just the S.A.T. REASONING TEST. S.A.T. doesn't stand for anything at all. And yet, they're the ones testing kids on language skills!



Take note: Picture above was taken by Tash at Special Education (tashat[dot]com) on an article about "Preparing Themselves Passing the Real SAT Test Successfully". Anyway, we here at OMG DidYaKnow want to everyone to do well on the SATs and so we'll give you a little tip: study, like really study, the picture above and remember the top 12 answers. That way, you can successfully pass the top 12 questions! WooHoo!! And you're welcome. ;)


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