<p>I was wondering which word-list is the best out there which one can download online. I can't any books like Direct Hits since I live in Pakistan and they aren't available here. It would cost me a fortune to order it online and the chances of it reaching me would still be uncertain.</p>
<p>So far I've seen 2 online lists, Rocket Review and Sparknotes 1000 word-list. How good are these lists? Any others?</p>
<p>From these, I think your best bet would be Sparknotes. Other things you could do: get the BB (can you get the official guide, at least? This is crucial) and look up all the words in it (this is basically what DH does). You could also read a high level book and look up every word you don’t know (then, read the book again). This teaches the words in context, and is the path I recommend. Again, I don’t know if you can get ANY book in your situation, but if not, you can also try E-books and the 3 existing CB practice tests. There are also QAS floating around the internet somewhere, and you could use those in lieu of the BB. </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have the basic books like the BB, Barrons and PR but I think they’re only useful for the practice tests. The other chapters pretty much state the obvious (at least that’s what I think, from the little I’ve read).</p>
<p>Hmm, the other advice like looking up the words from the BB, wouldn’t those words be very unlikely to come on the actual SAT since they’ve already used them in the practice tests? Reading a book etc I think would be too time-consuming. I’m taking the SAT in October and also have to other things to study for (most crucial year of HS would be starting this year).</p>
<p>^no looking up the words in the BB is the best way to go (if you cannot get direct hits of course). They actually do in fact repeat those words on the real SAT and direct hits compiles a lot of its words from there as well. I looked up words in the BB that I didn’t know and a bunch of them did in fact show up on the real thing. But if you do this in addition to the rocket review list and princeton review hit parade you will be all set. I haven’t used the spark notes list so I cannot tell you whether it was a good list or not.</p>
<p>Since you can’t get your hands on anything else, I might use Barron’s and PR for tips and stuff, but still not for PR. You’ll just have to milk the BB for everything it’s worth. Do the practice tests, analyze the problems, look up the vocab words, etc.</p>
<p>You have any American friends or relatives? Maybe give them a book list next time before they visit lol, that’s what my Chinese relatives always do.</p>
<p>Bigb14, well sadly I’ve done 6 out of the 8 practice tests from the BB (in a poor manner) when I took the SAT for the first time. I also did the 2007 and 2008 versions which are at the website. I wanna save the little college-board material I have till I am fully prepared, so I can test myself before the actual SAT properly. So what are some other places I can do the practice tests from? Can anyone PM me links to some pdf files?</p>
<p>bob64, Haha, actually a boat-load of them were recently here and have already left :/</p>
<p>Just because you did practice tests before doesn’t mean you can’t redo them… I don’t see what the problem is, especially if you don’t have access to some American resources.</p>
<p>Barron’s Hot Words for the SAT. It’s godly.</p>
<p>Yes, godly bad.</p>
<p>Yeah, well I guess I could redo them but since I’ve seen those questions before I might get a higher score than what I normally would.</p>
<p>Who cares about the score? You do practice tests to gain understanding of the test and to get into the test makers’ head; not to gauge your performance. Mindlessly taking practice tests get you nowhere. End of thread.</p>
<p>“Mindlessly taking practice tests get you nowhere”</p>
<p>Yup, I definitely made this mistake last time I took it. I was just saying that I might over-estimate myself. But yeah, who cares. I have probably forgotten most of the questions anyway.</p>
<p>What I’m saying is don’t even bother to compute your score. Just do the problems and ANALYZE. Did I mention not to mindlessly take practice tests? </p>
<p>Take a look through the new sticky. You’ll learn a lot.</p>
<p>i agree with big bob</p>
<p>Big…bob? That’s a new one.</p>
<p>Direct hits can be found on quizlet.com</p>