Direct Hits` performance

<p>What is the average performance of both volumes of DH ?Someone here claimed that on May 2007 DH had SEVENTEEN DIRECT hits and two indirect hits ?</p>

<p>anyone :} x.o.x.o</p>

<p>This was a post by Dark Knight on 06/21/08 on CC. There are others for October, November & December.</p>

<p>My Q & A Service copy of the May SAT finally arrived. So this gave me another opportunity to find out which Vocab lists/books were effective and which were ineffective.</p>

<p>The following 20 words were answers on the May SAT: Euphonious, Veneration, Parochial, Resurgence, Plethora, Facilitate, Tenacity, Forerunner, Paucity, Clandestine, Preternatural, Satirize, Denizen, Anecdote, Fortuitous, Shrewd, Autonomous, Confounded, Base and Paradox. Here is how the 12 lists/books I have been analyzing performed on the May 2008 SAT:</p>

<ol>
<li>Direct Hits Vocabulary: 434 words; 10 hits; 43.4 words per hit</li>
<li>Rocket Review Core Words: 323 words; 7 hits; 46.1 words per hit</li>
<li>Barron's Hot Words: 396 words; 8 hits; 49.5 words per hit</li>
<li>PR's Hit Parade: 253 words; 4 hits; 63.2 words per hit</li>
<li>Barrons High Frequency List: 385 words; 4 hits; 96.25 words per hit</li>
<li>Kaplan's SAT book list: 500 words; 4 hits; 125.0 words per hit</li>
<li>SparkNotes: 1000 words; 8 hits; 125.0 words per hit</li>
<li>PR's Word Smart: 1505 words; 10 hits; 150.5 words per hit</li>
<li>SuperKids: 1120 words; 7 hits; 160.0 words per hit</li>
<li>Kaplan's SAT Score Raising Dictionary: 1000 words; 5 hits; 200 words per hit</li>
<li>Barron's Mini-Dictionary: 3500 words; 17 hits; 205.8 words per hit</li>
<li>TestMaster's Small List: 254 words; 1 hit; 254 words per hit</li>
</ol>

<p>The May SAT contained a number of difficult words. For example, none of the 12 sources listed above had BASE, EUPHONIOUS or FORERUNNER.</p>

<p>For the third straight SAT (March, May and June), Direct Hits emerged as the top performing list/book. Direct Hits has lived up to its name with 17 of 19 in March, 13 of 21 in June and 10 of 20 in May.</p>

<p>Rocket Review' Core Words and PR's Hit Parade continue to perform well. Meanwhile, TestMaster's Little List only had one (autonomous) hit. So if you learned all 254 words on the TestMaster's little list all you got was one hit.</p>

<p>So which vocab list/book performed the best on the March 08 SAT? Here are the results:
by dark knight
1. Direct Hits Vocabulary: 435 words; 17 hits; 25.5 words per hit
2. Rocket Review: 323 words; 9 hits; 35.8 words per hit
3. PR's Hit Parade: 253 words; 7 hits; 36.1 words per hit
4. TestMaster's Short List: 254 words; 7 hits; 36.2 words per hit
5. Barron's High Frequency Words: 385 words; 6 hits; 64.1 words per hit
6. Barron's Hot Words: 396 words; 5 hits; 79.2 words per hit
7. SparkNotes: 1000 words; 13 hits; 83.3 words per hit
8. Kaplan's SAT Score-Raising Dictionary: 1000 words; 9 hits; 111.1 words per hit
9. SuperKids: 1120 words; 10 hits; 112 words per hit
10. PR's Word Smart: 1505 words; 11 hits; 136.8 words per hit
11. Barron's 3,500 Mini-Dictionary: 3500 words; 17 hits; 205.8 words per hit
12. Kaplan's SAT book: 500 words; 2 hits; 250 words per hit</p>

<p>just as many hits as the Barron`s 3500 list.Weird ..</p>