<p>I always see people asking about books to buy for vocabulary to boost their scores on the Critical Reading section. Do the words in the book often appear on the SAT? How much would it help me if I have a 650 right now on Critical Reading?</p>
<p>That depends on what book you buy!</p>
<p>In general, yes. I don’t think a normal person (i.e. someone without a special affinity for language, who doesn’t read tons of high-level writing) could score 750+ without using a word list.</p>
<p>If you bought the Direct Hits books and learned all 400 something words (not really that many), I’d chance that your CR score would increase a good 50 or so points at least (depending on where you’re missing questions–passages or sentence completions).</p>
<p>You could ‘wing it’ of course, but it’d be advisable to use some sort of vocabulary review. You should know many of those 400 Direct Hits words regardless.</p>
<p>Any recommendations for what book to buy? Are some of the words that I study bound to appear on the SAT?</p>
<p>Direct Hits</p>
<p>Direct Hits is the best. Also learning roots, prefixes, and suffixes would help a bunch!</p>
<p>I looked up Direct Hits on Amazon, and there are two volumes. Which one should I get? I read some reviews that said they are the same. Anyone know?</p>
<p>i think the first volume has easier words and the second has the harder words. if you can only get one or already know a decent amount of words just get the second volume.</p>
<p>Some words that are in the Direct Hits are just bound to be on the SAT.</p>