SAT Vocabulary and Writing Info
Scholastic Aptitude test and Scholastic Assessment test is also known as SAT. To obtain college admission in United States one needs to pass SAT. SAT is owned, published and developed by a not to profit organization present in United States of America. After 2005 SAT was renamed as SAT reasoning test. This section has four different sections math, critical reading and writing. Writing was recently included in SAT to determine the knowledge and reasoning skills of the applicant.
Critical reading and writing sections are two very important sections which test your reasoning ability. These sections determine whether you will pass or fail the test. To answer this section it is important to have good command on vocabulary.
There are two different sub sections to the essay section they are multiple choice and essay questions. Of the total 100% score 30% is reserved for essay and the other 70% is for multiple choice questions. Writing sections was introduced into SAT after complaints from various institutions regarding students writing ability. Student’s knowledge of grammar is tested by error identification and sentence improvement questions. Student is presented with multiple choices from which he needs to select an appropriate answer. Logical organization of ideas, improvement suggestions for an essay, sentence improvement, etc are just some of the questions on which a student is tested.
SAT being an international competitive exam has standard level of English. This test is written in different parts of the world. In some countries such as India, China, Japan, SriLanka, France, etc English is not their native tongue and students from these countries need to place much emphasis on developing grammar and vocabulary. Students in English speaking countries such as Australia, USA, England, New Zealand, etc need to place emphasis on developing good grammar and vocabulary so that their English gets polished and refined for accuracy. Analysis by Dr. Les Perelman revealed that students who scored the highest mark 12 have written more than 400 words and those with lower grade obtained 1. Grader of your essay spends less than 3 minutes on checking the quality of the article which you wrote.
Some of the ideas which you encounter in your daily life seem to be outlandish and ineffective but in general they help you to develop vocabulary. Students are taught pronunciation and grammar in their classroom but often they are not taught words – particular words which they need during conversation. Students generally need to develop their own vocabulary learning methods which are effective for them.
Learn words associatively (they come handy during essay writing), use those words to express your personal state of emotion, make sure you are listening to what you are saying, make a note of the difficulties which you are facing, etc. There are many other suggestions which you can implement in your student life so that you can gain upper hand in the test.
