Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal ScoreEffortlessly 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. |
Contents
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CONFESSIONS OF A REBEL TROMBONIST | 13 |
CONFESSIONS OF A ROAD HAZARD | 38 |
CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMERCAMP JUNKIE | 54 |
CONFESSIONS OF A VAGABOND SWIMMER | 76 |
CONFESSIONS OF A RUNNING DISASTER | 93 |
CONFESSIONS OF AN INSANE INTERN | 116 |
CONFESSIONS OF A GHETTO SOCCER STAR | 126 |
CONFESSIONS OF A HOMESCHOOLER | 143 |
CONFESSIONS OF A PIGSTY PRANKSTER | 155 |
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