<p>I'm going to be taking my SAT test in June 2015 and I have just started learning the SAT vocab (13 words a day). I was initially planning on learning about 3,500 words ( from the Barron's book) but I've come to a conclusion that I will not be able to learn everything. I now think about learning about 1,500 words, and I'm also going to be doing a lot of reading from the college board recommended list of books & a bunch of newspapers and magazines. I don't have a very good memory so if I try to cram all 3500 words I'll probably end up forgetting half of them. I wanted to know if 1000-1500 was enough for a good critical reading score?</p>
<p>Cramming so many vocab words is not going to help you at all.
I recommend that you just learn the words in Direct Hits Volume 1 and Volume 2.
After that, start with practice papers and make flash cards of each difficult word you come by.</p>
<p>True!!! 3500 words won’t help at all… master the way to handle the word patterns… not the words!</p>
<p>That Barron’s list is very bad. Direct Hits 1 & 2, Word Smart 1 & 2 are way better.</p>
<p>I agree with the previous staters. Direct Hits is fantastic. 3500 words is a crapload. </p>