num_pages: 224
description: 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 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.(* any of the large muscles of the buttocks; gluteus maximus)
language: English
title: Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal Score
titlecomplete: Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal Score
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)