<p>hey all!</p>
<p>What is the best plan of learning 3000 words?</p>
<p>1st day : Open the book, memorize 10 words then close the book.
2nd day : Open the book, memorize 10 words, revise the 10 words of the day before then close the book.
3rd day : Open the book, memorize 10 words, revise the 20 words of the 2 days before then close the book.
Repeat these steps for 300 days (10 months)</p>
<p>3000 words? Lol.</p>
<p>More like 400 words from Direct Hits you mean? Dude, I swear, the entire sentence completion portion of the exam was from Direct Hits.</p>
<p>For the October test, I recited the Barron list in the entire August, not skipping one word from A to G. But I started to think it as extremely inefficient because the gain from reciting 100 words a day does not catch doing exercises of College Board and boost my CR and grammar. My score (by taking the middle score range of College Board) increased from about 1900 something to nearly 2200 in a month.
I don’t think I’ll get 2200 this time though, for the fact I sucked in one passage.</p>
<p>SirWanksalot </p>
<p>DUDE,ARE U SURE?</p>
<p>listen,i was going to buy this direct hits,but i didnt find confidence reading paid reviews on amazon.All reviews were so un-natural.
only 400 words? =))</p>
<p>warsovereign</p>
<p>I think u will do well on the test :)</p>
<p>someone told me that the guy who made direct hits pays collegeboard money to include his words in the test</p>
<p>I’m nowhere near being a 2300+ student, but I bought an app for my iPhone called IntelliVocab. I memorized 800 of the 4886 words in a month. I really wish I had found it sooner.</p>
<p>I have to agree with SirJacksoffalot.</p>
<p>I took the SAT yesterday. And to be honest, atleast one to two words per question on the sentence completions were from Direct Hits. 3 of the answers were straight from the book.</p>
<p>It’s really inefficient to memorize 3000 words, unless you have a huge amount of time. I was skeptical about Direct Hits too, but after yesterday I’m really thankful for it. Memorizing Direct Hits as well as 3000 words would probably guarantee you full marks on the SC. </p>
<p>But then again, you could be smart about studying and just learn the roots/prefixes/suffixes and Direct Hits. As long as you have been reading challenging books, you probably know a lot of vocab already.</p>
<p>Mazorak Thanks for sharing info :)</p>
<p>but what about passages?</p>
<p>and when u could elliminate at least 2 or 3 answers from a question was it enough? :)</p>
<p>what is ur objective ? ( SAT word 
)</p>
<p>I personally memorized 40 words a day, for 3 months straight.</p>
<p>Day 1: 40 word
Day 2: Repeat day 1 words, then new 40 words
Day 3: Repeat day 1 and 2 words, then 40 new words, etc. for 3 months!!</p>
<p>It works for me, but it may or not work for you.</p>
<p>what score did u get? :)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I never get sentence completion questions wrong and I used Direct Hits.</p>
<p>Don’t try to memorize … Just read a lot and look up words from there that you don’t know. And also, practice CR sections. I didn’t really “memorize” too many vocab words and the sentence completion section for the SAT sort of improved itself. You begin to recognize patterns soon enough. Once you improve your general reading skills, you’ll be able to decipher words you don’t even know through connotation and context.</p>
<p>I just read a lot and I’m good at guessing.</p>
<p>I never memorized any words but I read a lot as a kid. Usually I get one word I don’t know every few tests but I know all the others and can eliminate them.</p>
<p>I’ve been keeping this notebook and I write all the words down, regardless if I know it or not…</p>
<p>I took a prep class that made me learn 2000 words. Probably retained 100 that I learned. I didn’t miss a question on SC.</p>
<p>Don’t try to memorize 3000 words. Even if you could completely digest each word in 2 minutes, that would still take you 100 hours–enough time to grasp some genuinely interesting subject. Just read a lot and pay attention to roots. For example, “fallacious” appeared on this year’s SAT. Even if you have never heard the word before, you can probably recognize that it looks like “fallacy.”</p>
<p>Having said that, if you are struggling with the vocab, definitely get Direct Hits. Takes a couple hours to read and the words are definitely relevant.</p>
<p>Personally I already knew about 30%-50% of the words from prior experiences (mostly reading, I suppose), but I read over a few of those “Top 100/200/500/etc… SAT Words” lists and went over the ones I didn’t already know. About half of the time, my strategy of “read the question, guess at the blank, compare it to the answer choices” yielded me the exact correct answer, and it was helpful 3/4 of the time. Combine that with process of elimination, and you should do very well (provided that you have, or at least can create, a good foundation of a few hundred words - don’t bother with all 3000 though).</p>
<p>Good luck! /2380-scorer, 800 CR</p>
<p>Direct Hits all the way. Also, if youfind a word that isn’t in DR while you are doing some pracetice tests, just look it up in the Barrons 3000 list and really memorize it only if it is a high frequency/hot prospect word!</p>