NFL Hall of Fame Wide Receiver Jerry Rice once said: “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
During his playing days, Rice’s off-season conditioning regimen was legendary. He worked out incessantly in preparation for the grueling NFL season.
I have said many times that the “game” is often won in practice. What will you do with your free time this summer?
How does this quote apply to your studying?
Vocabulary is an essential component of the SAT. Sure, mastery of definitions is important for sentence completions. However, a great vocabulary is also an asset for success on the entire test. For example, many times there will be a keyword in the sentence itself. How can we complete a sentence we don’t fully understand?
Often, difficult words will show up as the answers to passage based reading questions. At other times, difficult words will be in the passage itself. I have even noticed that such words like “respectively” will sometimes show up in a long winded math word problem. Of course, almost immediately, my students will ask me, “What does respectively mean?”
Even in the writing section, a sentence error might contain the improper use of a word
