<p>Hey everyone, im having some really bad problems with CR vocab. im fine with every other section of the SATs, even the passages but im just horrible with vocab. I never really read enough as a kid but im kinda too late for going back and fixing that so i was wondering if u guys could send me the best SAT vocab lists you have. thanks!</p>
<p>Get Direct Hits.</p>
<p>The Sparknotes list is also decent if you don’t want to pay for direct hits. Or, if you already have the PR book, the hit parade is also decent. But direct hits is the best.</p>
<p>cud u link me the hit parade. thanks</p>
<p>It’s in a book; it can’t be linked.</p>
<p>Will Direct Hits help much in the BB practice tests that have never been administered? The 2 SCs I got wrong had vocab not in DH</p>
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<p>It helped me quite a bit as far as I can remember. I used the 1st edition of the BB, which had 8 unadministered exams.</p>
<p>One thing that’s helped me on a few hard sentence completion questions is looking for, and studying word roots. There are a few words that start with “pug” and they are all related to being aggressive. It helped me to associate the root with pugs (the dogs), which are kind of ugly. I’ve also discovered, from going over my missed Blue Book questions, that words that start with “ob,” like obdurate and obstinate mean stubborn. Although you might not know what “incorrigible” means, you might make the connection between corr and correctable and guess that it means not correctable.</p>
<p>Direct Hits is also very useful, but beware: if you read the DH books before going through Blue Book practice tests, you might get an inflated sense of your ability in sentence completion problems, because the author of DH pulled a lot of the vocab words in DH from Blue Book questions. I’m not sure if these words will appear as often on future SATs as they do on already released BB tests.</p>
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Actually, it has been demonstrated that they do an excellent job of predicting future SATs. With their 400+ words, they achieved 9 “hits,” more than any other vocab list except Barron’s 3500 word list, which got an equal number of hits.</p>
<p>Does Direct Hits have a section on roots?</p>
<p>Subsidize, can you post a list of roots you have studies so far?</p>
<p>Sorry garfield, I don’t have a list of roots that I study. I’m not a big fan of rote memorization. Instead, when I come across a word I don’t recognize while reading or doing sentence completions, I try to break it down and make connections with other words that have the same roots or suffixes.</p>
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<p>No, it doesn’t. But that would be superfluous, IMO.</p>