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<p>Was snobbish the answer to the sc? Also do you remember any other sc’s so we can help dark knight compile the list? I think the journalist thread couldn’t come up with all 19 sc’s…they only remembered about 10 or so…plz help him! Thx</p>
<p>I recommend learning: magnanimous, rancorous, chagrin, and caustic. </p>
<p>I’ve seen the first three several times on past real exams.</p>
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<p>No, snobbish was part of the answer to the thing about how modernism went from egalitarian to snobbish.</p>
<p>I had CR passages: Japanese translator, Mathematics, and Farming/cows, ESSAY: New technology and communication.
along with 4 Math sections. I believe my section two math section is experimental because my friend go the exact same order of the test except section 2 math. We had different math section 2 but rest of the test was the same. So… is it safe to say it’s experimental?</p>
<p>I took the November SAT and got 560 on my CR section. I didn’t really memorize many words (if at all) and got 13 corrects, 5 incorrects and 1 ommited questions in sentence completion. I am planning to retake the SAT on January (my last chance) and I was wondering if I should purchase the DH book. What would you recommend me? I do not find sentence completion very tough, but I want to boost my scores this time. And if I decide to get the book, which one do you recommend me? Core or toughest vocabulary?</p>
<p>One way to boost your scores is to simply leave the last 2 or 3 blank on your SC. You can memorize 300 words, but if the 301st or 2nd word appears on your SC section - you’ve got a problem.</p>
<p>If you had left blank 3 or 4 of the problems you missed your score might have improved 20-30 points just from not LOSING points on wrong answers.</p>
<p>True but what happens if the list repeatedly generates hits on the Level 4 and 5 questions? DH has enjoyed an unparalleled record of success on all of the 2010 exams.</p>
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No idea where you got your scale from, but no. The most it’d cost you is 10 points. 20 points is the maximum and it’s only in extremely rare cases where the curve is unforgiving and it’d only happen in the 700s part of the scale.</p>
<p>To the OP: Get both. If you truly understand all the words in both books, and remember them, you’ll likely know 17/19 SCs at the least. They’re that good. My advice is guess the other two if you don’t know them, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>On the November 2010 SAT, I got 0 sentence completion ones wrong, down from 8 wrong my previous test. Direct Hits helped, along with the other word lists I assiduously studied over the summer.</p>
<p>I got like 12 passage questions wrong though - 7 worse than last time! Hopefully January will see more light!</p>
<p>My advice; never guess on the sentence completions one, i prolly omitted 1 or 2 from each section because i knew i would get it wrong. I actually usually take 1 guess but thats only if i got the answer choices down to 3.</p>
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<p>Ehh, I’d disagree. The only time to leave an SC blank is if you don’t know what any of the choices mean. Unless you can consistently nail -0 on the passages, it’s better to go for it on 4th and 2 (which is what I did on Saturday and that may have saved an 800).</p>
<p>yeah but what if your 4th and 10? (have not limited the choices down to 2 or 3). Then you should skip it</p>
<p>^Not if you’re going for an 800. On Saturday, I wasn’t quite sure what arcane meant (the SC was basically asking for a synonym for arcane) but I still went for it since I wanted an 800. Realizing that I got it was such a great feeling.</p>
<p>Then again, if you’re not going for an 800, omitting would be pragmatic.</p>
<p>December 21st…hmmmm</p>
<p>Direct hits was very helpful for the December SAT. I missed zero sentence completion questions.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how Direct Hits can so readily predict future SAT words by looking just at previous ones?</p>
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<p>My take on it: The SAT is a standardized test; that’s it’s claim to fame, really. If the SAT used significantly different difficult words on different tests, that really screws up the standardization of the SC questions. So, they tend to use the same words over and over (if you do several CB-written AP exams in the same subject, you realize that some of the questions are the exact same, just worded a bit differently). When CB decides to use new hard words, the curve makes up for it.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, why are other sources of vocab lists so horrible if they do the same thing?</p>
<p>^Because they don’t use previous SAT’s and CC (and other similar forums) as much as DH’s author does. In addition, the beauty of DH is that you only need to memorize about 450 words. I’m sure Barron’s 3000-word-long list covers everything in DH, but the hits/total words ratio for DH is much higher than it is for Barron’s and other lists.</p>
<p>DH uses this site?</p>