Confessions of a High School Word Nerd
Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal Score
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Study Aids, College & University, College Entrance, Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
| Author: | Arianne Cohen, Colleen Kinder | ISBN: | 9781440627408 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | January 2, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Arianne Cohen, Colleen Kinder |
| ISBN: | 9781440627408 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | January 2, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays
Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool.
(*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)
Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays
Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool.
(*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)
