<p>You just bought the books and ask us how many words there are ?</p>
<p>^I just ordered them from Amazon.com, so I don’t know…</p>
<p>i went to Barnes and Nobles.They didn’t have DH,they’ll have it in 3-4 business days.I bought Barron’s Hot Words for the SAT for now…when I do receive both DH books,will I be ok,even though I’ll study Barrons for now?it will be two weeks to the Dec SAT,Will two weeks be enough?</p>
<p>Usually, most people get it online as Direct hits isn’t as commmonplace as Kaplan/Barron books. In my opinion, also, Barron doesn’t do much but give you a list of useless words.</p>
<p>I already paid for an order for the DH books that will have the books sent to Barnes and nobles</p>
<p>Yeah, Barron’s list, while great for just upping your vocabulary in general, isn’t the best for the SAT. It’s just…too long!</p>
<p>No, it isn’t that its too long.</p>
<p>It’s because of its hit ratio to words count. If you’ve seen the list of vocab books posted a while back, you would understand. The DH words simply carries more hit ratios than any other book. Sure, the RR has more hits than DH but it has more words, thus lowering its hit ratio.</p>
<p>Are ya’ll talking about the DH Core words or both the Core and the Tough ones? By the way, how long is the word list?</p>
<p>@Ivan_Stanchev - Glad I’m not the only one crazy enough to try and memorize a crapload of words 0.o </p>
<p>To those skeptical it’s not that difficult actually. In a week I have memorized 1115 words from this website –>[Word</a> lists for Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Verbal Vocabulary](<a href=“http://www.postech.ac.kr/~gla/gre/]Word”>http://www.postech.ac.kr/~gla/gre/) and will probably have 3400 more by December, takes about an hour and a half a day. But what troubles me is that even the largest lists are missing some obscure words like gerrymander, onery, panaply, xanadu, eleemosynary, and who knows what else, while words like actuarial and collate which will probably never be on the test are in them u,u</p>
<p>@ lolilaughed, </p>
<p>3500 words is too long. Even if it had a really high hit/miss ratio, it’s too long…</p>
<p>^ Uh, if it had a high hit ratio, I’d read it. More word for the SAT.</p>
<p>Ugh. Why did I not know about this book? 
I’m also a non-native speaker, Slavic as well, and the bestest (sic) part of my pre-college studying were the SAT words.</p>
<p>I learned around 500 (Princeton Review + Kaplan combined) and I’m so proud of myself. I had a week. ^^ Damn, I should have put that as a ~nonacademic distinction~. </p>
<p>Method: “[english] - [translation] - [practice sentence with examples from personal life]”</p>
<p>And on the SAT, the only word I did not know was blight. Seriously, who puts ‘blight’ in a test?</p>
<p>you would know the definition of blight if you studied less, and played more video games! all my friends knew that word cuz of playing computer games</p>
<p>Thats what i am talking about.IF you are completely bent (determined) , you can momorize about 100 words a day - make them 700 in a week.It is possible to memorize even more but it is pointless.</p>
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Don’t you already have a 2380?</p>
<p>I’m a bit skeptical of Direct Hits… Searching through the table of contents its missing some important words and doesn’t have some of the harder vocabulary words. I’m suprised it doesn’t have “magnanimous.” That’s like the most common “hard” word in the entire history of the SAT.</p>
<p>^ I thought munificent was! 
And yes, I was very lucky the Oct 2008 vocab was extremely vocab.</p>
<p>it was extremely vocab, you say? :D</p>
<p>HAHA oops. Thanks! “extremely easy”.</p>
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<li>I was hoping people would play some ad-libs with me :D</li>
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