<p>How did DH work for Dec SAT?
Since there were multiple versions of the test, which one did you have?</p>
<p>it was hella good for dec sat</p>
<p>Yeah I used DH for two days prior to this test. I think I aced the sentence completions section today!! (And I got 7 wrong in sentence completion alone in the October SAT)</p>
<p>But some of the words and answers were not in DH, however, you can eliminate most of the choices because you know what most the words are in the choices.</p>
<p>it really helped me A LOT
i was so amazed, i didnt even expected it would help me so much
i am now larry krieger's fan :DD</p>
<p>you're giving dh too much credit. Studying words from any place would help a lot</p>
<p>Fortify, no, just no.</p>
<p>I bought these books and studied from 9PM to 1 AM last night and I was able to EASILY get about 4-5 SC's right from looking at it. A hard question, uncouth. The answer just popped out for me. Many other hits on the test. Great book, great product, suggest +++.</p>
<p>Hmm looking at all these posts about DH and its success on the past couple of SATs I think i'll go and get it.</p>
<p>I missed 4 sentence completions last time..so definitely want to improve that section because it could boost my CR up a lot</p>
<p>Did you all get both books? Or just one?</p>
<p>You need both. Really, it won't be effective unless you get both.</p>
<p>Direct Hits was totally awesome! Hit after hit!!! This is easily the best vocabulary book. I totally aced the SC's.</p>
<p>Rocketreview was very good for this one too. But the SC this time around was VERY easy compared to last time.</p>
<p>I was pretty much fine with Sparknotes's 1000 Words for the SAT. I only left 1 blank, and I believe i got the rest right.</p>
<p>My son came home from the SAT very excited (and tired!) because he recognized a number of words from the DH books. From the other thread he seems to have gotten version 2 because he mentioned a reading about a Korean mother. The words he remembered from the SCs were confounded, anecdotal, extemporaneously and uncouth. On the reading passages he remembered aesthetics and dilatory.</p>
<p>Even though this is a vocabulary thread he also said he thought the Grubers book had helped him on the math as well as the online practice test. Now we just have to wait for the scores.</p>
<p>Is direct hits different than most SAT vocab books/lists? Does it actually help you to remember the words ? Because I'm not that great at straight up memorizing..ex. Barron's word list.</p>
<p>which is better?
direct hits? wordsmart?</p>
<p>My son found the vivid examples of the words in Direct Hits very helpful in terms of remembering the words. It helped him to see how the words were used in context. The tests at the end of each chapter helped him see what he did not remember.</p>
<p>He used other books that just had definitions and he felt they were harder to remember. The other books were very thick. He was able to take the DH books with him so he could look at them when he had free time. After the test yesterday, he felt they were extremely helpful, he even used some of the words he learned in his essay.</p>
<p>Collegeboard only uses a small pool of "SAT words"
by studying this pattern from past QAS and practice tests, he has compiled two lethal books filled with pertinent vocabulary :]</p>
<p>I am very pleased to say that my son received a 750 critical reading score on the December SAT. He feels that the Direct Hits book really helped him.</p>
<p>How did the rest of you that posted here do on the Dec. test?</p>
<p>I have just finished the barron<code>s 3500 word list.After that i did the practice questions of DH.There were about 20-30 words that are not contained in Barron</code>s</p>
<p>For those of you guys who used DH for the Dec. test..how were your CR scores? Did they improve quite a bit??</p>