SAT Vocab Challenge: iPhone as tutor

Developer’s description: This iPhone and iPod touch app is a college admissions exam resource that measures a user’s mastery of 250 words, including The Princeton Review’s Hit Parade, a list of 100 words that most frequently appear on the SAT. The Princeton Review partnered with Modality, the premiere mobile learning architect, to create a custom framework for the application that takes full advantage of the innovative multi-touch user interface of iPhone and iPod touch and includes the following features:

• 250 of the most commonly tested words on the SAT, as identified by The Princeton Review’s survey of past tests

• Four distinct types of timed challenges to test the user on each word’s positive or negative connotation, synonyms, antonyms, and definition

• Students can select answers quickly by swiping or tilting the screen

• Performance is tracked by the app itself, so at any time students can see the number of terms they have mastered

• A complete index with definition, pronunciation, and part of speech for each word.

Pros: Handsome and uses the Apple interface well.

Cons: Can’t add or customize words, though you can get other volumes.

Category: Education

Author: The Princeton Review, Inc.

Platform: iPhone

Cost: Free