What books good for Vocab??

[avik224]

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I have heard from many ppl on this forum that reading is a good way to build vocabulary for PCAT...

However, I have one question:

What sort of material do you recommend that I read???

Books by a specific author?

Specific magazines? Newspapers?

How about the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill???

How much study time is recommended/required to successfully use this method on the PCAT????

 

[Strutter]

I have heard from many ppl on this forum that reading is a good way to build vocabulary for PCAT...

However, I have one question:

What sort of material do you recommend that I read???

Books by a specific author?

Specific magazines? Newspapers?

How about the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill???

How much study time is recommended/required to successfully use this method on the PCAT????

From what I've read, the "WallStreet Journal" is excelent.

And GRE is overkill. So you should be studying the SAT vocab. But don't quote me on this.

Should you need GRE, you might wanna check this out: http://grewordslist.its-ps.com


Also, read "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It is a MUST read. Trancends to ALL areas in life, including school.

 

[snvplayer]

I think Times or any magazines in that line would be fine...But you have to try to analyze the article that you read..basically any book, or magazine that challenges you intellectually.

For learning vocabs, I higly recommend "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis. The book is written in a way to teach you vocab..Very good book...I went through them twice and learned a lot. I am thinking of going through it a couple of time more..

However, for PCAT, the level of vocabs aren't very high....Much, much, much easier than GRE vocabs. So learning GRE vocabs will be good for your own sake, but it won't have significant impact on your verbal score.

I didn't like PCAT analogy questions...Some of the analogy questions weren't very clear (I knew all the words b/c they were simple, but couldn't draw analogy)...I can recall one question that required you a specific knowledge in development of certain philosophical ideas...So basically, read a lot of books for analogy.

For sentence completion, you need to learn how to eliminate answers and what words best fit the sentences. I found Kaplan SAT verbal to be very effective. When I took PCAT for the first time, I was sort of lost in their sentence completion, but after doing that SAT verbal problems again, I could reason my way through all the problems...
In other words, you basically need to learn how to analyze sentences, as you analyze any numerical data etc..