The bulk of the Q Cards deck consists of 382 vocabulary cards, displaying 2674 words that have appeared on national standardized college admissions tests. Words designated with an asterisk deserve special attention because they are the ones in the deck that have appeared most frequently. Each vocabulary card displays 7 words that share a theme based on their most familiar meaning. Each theme may include only one or more than 10 cards. Unlike an alphabetical listing, grouping words in this manner gives you the opportunity to make associations, enhancing your understanding and recall. All vocabulary words are defined on the back and used in an illustrative sentence, also constructed in a manner to improve understanding and recall.


Selected vocabulary words are displayed with additional information. Throughout the deck you will find vocabulary words accompanied by one or two of the 98 word elements you encountered on the initial 14 Q Cards. This provides you with another means of understanding these elements and their role in defining words. Other vocabulary words have a question mark printed below them. The question mark is a cue, indicating the vocabulary word and the one above it are either synonyms or antonyms. Use the opportunity to guess and build your knowledge of these word relationships.

The importance of increasing your knowledge of word relationships and associations can't be overstated. It's a fact that the more mental connections you are able to make with a piece of new information, the longer it stays in memory, the more quickly it can be learned, and the easier it is to retrieve when you need it. Q Cards provides the connections you need to rapidly build a vocabulary that lasts, ideal for the SAT but also one that will pay lifelong dividends.