<p>I got a 600 on CR. I have till around Octoberish to get CR up (I'm satisfied w/ Math/Writing). Any ideas? Buy (both volumes of) Direct Hits? Highway robbery if you ask me, but if it really would give me a see-able improvement, I will do it.</p>
<p>Only vocab I studied and I received an 800CR on both the Jan and March tests.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I have the ability to answer the passage-based to get an 800. By how much did your fill in-only performance increase?</p>
<p>yes yes yes for vocab it’s definitely worth it, trust me I was a skeptic too at first</p>
<p>I only went through the words once and I got most of the vocab section for the March SAT.</p>
<p>Yes, it is worth it.</p>
<p>The Direct Hits books helped both of my sons score in the 700s on critical reading. Besides the sentence completions, there are a number of vocabulary based questions in the reading passages.</p>
<p>Definitely. Great tool for SAT vocabulary.</p>
<p>I have the Barrons 3500 and have done a lot of vocabulary from it. Is it still worthwhile to get Direct hits? If so, which volume? Volume 1 or 2? Could someone also give me the link to the edition?</p>
<p>Direct hits- which one is best? i see toughest vocab, core vocab?</p>
<p>If anyone can answer my question, please pm me.</p>
<p>Everyone who intends to take the SAT should go through both volumes of Direct Hits.</p>
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Just buy both volumes; one is aimed at level 2-4 vocabulary questions while the other targets mainly vocabulary in level 5 sentence completion questions.</p>
<p>I never understood how these books are consistently helpful. Where does the College Board get its words? Does this “source” just HAPPEN to consistently overlap with some of Direct Hits’ words even though they were written in the past? Do the people who wrote Direct Hits also work for the CB?</p>
<p>The books seem to serve as benefactors. I’m not sure what source the author has been utilizing though.</p>
<p>Yes. Only books I read for vocab, and got perfect on SC this March.</p>
<p>^^He gets them from past SATs. They are actually quite repetitive. One of the reasons this test can be studied for.</p>
<p>I didn’t acknowledge how repetitive the SAT was.</p>
<p>By “^^” I think he meant two posts above his (mine).</p>
<p>It has to be repetitive. It’s a standardized test.</p>
<p>Standardized tests are consistent in their administration, instructions, structure, etc., not their actual content.</p>
<p>In the introduction to both books, it says that the author has taken the SAT almost every time it has been offered. He also taught SAT prep classes and his high school was #1 in the nation for public schools for SAT scores in 2004 before he retired and wrote the Direct Hits books.</p>