<p>Alright so I need to re-take the SAT one last time in october because of my critical reading scores and I just wanted to know if I learn every single definition in both volumes of DH, will i ever be able to reach 750 (i'm stuck around 600 round now). EVER. If anyone sucked at the CR section at first and bought the book then became really good could give me his/her opinion that would be very helpful.</p>
<p>Well, if sentence completion questions are dragging your score down, learning the DH words will significantly improve your score. If you’re getting -0’s and -1’s in the sentence completion subset of CR, then getting DH might not help you too much.</p>
<p>DH will only help you if your CR score is in the 600s because of the sentence completion. I had a 660 and raised it to an 800, but I only studied passage strategies</p>
<p>Frankly, trying to memorize words is a bit silly. You’re better off taking time to read a few really great books. Critical Reading is just that: you should learn how to use and understand language in context if you’d like to do better. The first time I took the SAT, I got a 750 in Reading (it was during the crunch time of the academic year and I hadn’t had the opportunity to do any reading in a while). The second time I took the SAT, I had just finished Guns, Germs, and Steel (rich in vocabulary and style) the night before, so I was still in the proverbial ‘zone’ when it came to reading comprehension. If that strategy fails you, at least you have something to discuss during your college interview :)</p>
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<p>I’d chance that an SAT score is weighted more heavily in the admissions process than is an interview that you may not even get with every school.</p>