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OverviewOne Man's Quest to Find the Unknown Words How many words could a student have added to his or her high-school vocabulary over the course of a typical college career? In strategic preparation for the MCAT-the Medical College Admission Test-the author undertook as a college freshman to record and define every unknown word that he encountered. Over the next three years he recorded and learned roughly 700 words, resulting in his scoring in the 99th percentile on the MCAT's vocabulary section: he knew every word. Two years and another 300 words later, he scored in the 99th percentile on the GRE (the Graduate Record Examination), again knowing every word in the test. In the ensuing years, he has added an additional 300 words. These are the right words-no jargon, no technical terms, no quaint or whimsical words, no high-school words. All of them are in current usage by modern writers. Any college student preparing for a graduate-school exam - the MCAT, LSAT, GRE, or GMAT - will benefit from reading through these more than 1300 words, which are indexed and arranged in order from the more common to the more obscure. By reading through and memorizing the first half of these, the student will have learned the more common of the big words, and might whet his or her appetite for learning the more obscure of them in the second half. The high-school student who already has acquired an advanced vocabulary might benefit also in preparation for the SAT and ACT tests, as the college vocabulary presented here comprises the words that separate the average high-school vocabulary from the extraordinary. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kentworth M EdelPublisher: Ironwoodhill Press Imprint: Ironwoodhill Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780615354651ISBN 10: 0615354653 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 August 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |