<p>I'm about to take the sat this weekend and I'm worried if direct hits will be enough.. since DH accurately has tabulated all the vocabulary on recent QAS and blue book.. do you think ETS has caught on and will be trying to trick us with some different and tougher vocabulary???</p>
<p>yea probably.</p>
<p>Studying vocabulary is pointless.</p>
<p>You study hundreds of words that may or may not come up on the test.</p>
<p>The test asks about 15-20 words.</p>
<p>Either you waste your time by studying way too many words or by studying the wrong words.</p>
<p>If you’ve already done it, though, it’s a sunk cost. Still, I wouldn’t advise any additional vocabulary work.</p>
<p>You know, I’ve found that DH is surprisingly unknown outside of CC.</p>
<p>DH may be unknown, but the words are good words. They were before DH and they will be after DH. Go ahead and learn them.</p>
<p>definitely wouldn’t say it worthless… I’ve found my self articulating and understand much better after DH. knowing it’s not that popular outside of CC Is relieving</p>
<p>i’ve asked around and no one in my grade knew about DH. use it!</p>
<p>in my personal opinion, it is so overrated. I bought the two Direct Hits vocab books to study for the SATs, but I read a couple of pages and never opened them again. Sold them to somebody who was desperate for them (: honestly, the books aren’t very useful. If you like to read and you are fairly good at English, you don’t really need to buy vocab books and memorize words daily. Not effective.</p>
<p>The DH books were very helpful to me, but I read more than a couple pages so that might have been the difference. I also wanted a very high score on the critical reading, which I got (780). Silverturtle recommended the Blue Book and Direct Hits and it worked.</p>
<p>I’m new what is direct hits? and blue book?</p>
<p>I would not say that DH is becoming too popular. I don’t know anyone outside of CC that knows about, I’m guessing that around 1% of the test population knows it exists. (I’m not good at guessing numbers, maybe someone would care to give a more accurate number)</p>
<p>If ETS finds out about Direct Hits, I doubt they would try to avoid using those words. It should be their own fault that the list has [somewhat] predictable patterns.</p>
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It’s their fault that it’s predictable, so they don’t have a right to correct it?</p>
<p>In any case, I agree, it’s not too popular outside of CC.</p>
<p>None of the people around me knows about DH. CC is just a strange group of people. No, it’s not too popular except among elites. :)</p>
<p>there’s a really low chance that certain words that you study will come up on the SATs… however… what you study now, won’t be a “disadvantage” for you. even if they don’t help on the SATs… the words you have studied will help you improve your essays.</p>
<p>Since the Direct Hits books are only available through Amazon or Barnes and Noble.com, I don’t think they will get to be “too popular” anytime soon. It’s great that CCers have the inside track.</p>
<p>Since the Direct Hits books are only available through Amazon & Barnes and Noble.com I don’t think they will be “too popular” anytime soon. It’s great that CCers know about them and others don’t.</p>
<p>Like many previous posters said, absolutly no-one i know has ever heard of Direct Hits! Only in this gated community of CC do ppl not only know of it, but praise it like its the greatest thing that ever happened. Well, i too was fooled by the hype about Dircet Hits and bought it. Paid like 30$. I don’t belive it’s worth it. You can simply buy the prineton review vocab app for ur ipod for 5$. Within two weeks, 500 words will be memorized. But whatever, perhaps it is worth it, it’s up to you. Also , in response to someone who said vocab isn’t needed to study and is a waste of time- thats totally incorrect; vocab make up the sentence completion. The are like 19 SC questions on the test. For someone who is a naturally bright student (not CC bright, just bright) he will get about 5/8 sentence sompletion with the vocab he already knows. But the other 3,3 and 2 per section = 8 CR questions that are based solely on vocab. memorize 500-1,000 SAT words, and u will significantly increase ur chances on those 8 q’s. Even knowing one word in a SC quesiton multiple choice can very well give u the point . If ur debating between 2 possible answer choices and u know the def. of one of them b/c u studied voacb u will get that Q correct- and increase ur score by 10 points. Most likely, u’ll get from 3-6 more questions write on CR b/c of vocab u memorized. That’s an increase from, say, a 1350-1400; it’s a big deal! from a 660 to a 700; it’s a big deal. </p>
<p>Anyway, that’s my point. studying vocab is worth it- ive experiecnced its benefits fist hand</p>