u/Hot_Youth_9477 — reddlx

I know PYQs help a lot for English vocabulary. Root words, option elimination, previous year vocab lists all of that definitely works, and honestly that’s what most of us are doing right now. Because of that, mocks are also going well. But one thing I genuinely want to ask is: what do we do for the completely new vocabulary that appears every year? There are always some words that are totally out of the blue. Not from PYQs, not from common root words, and sometimes even logic or elimination doesn’t help much because all the options look unfamiliar. In mocks, we score because somewhere we have already seen those words before. But in the actual exam, there will obviously be a fresh set of words that none of us have memorized. So how should one prepare for that part specifically? Is there any way to build vocabulary strong enough for unseen words apart from just mugging up PYQs and vocab lists? Or is the strategy simply to maximize accuracy in the rest and accept that some vocab questions will always be unpredictable? Would genuinely like to know how serious aspirants are dealing with this.