<p>I want to buy an sat vocabulary book and while reading some reviews online, they show statistics for each and rate them based on hits. I want to know if a hit is just a word from the book that turned out to be on the test or is it a word that was the answer? From my current prep book almost half the words show up on the tests, so i need to know if it would be worth it to buy another. thanks in advance.</p>
<p>A word that came from the book.</p>
<p>It’s better like that anyway. Think about it. Besides, ‘hits’ also include big words that show up in reading comprehension passages as well.</p>
<p>A hit is an answer that came from the book. If you were reading the reviews for the Direct Hits series, then you would know that the DH books have the best percentage of hits on the SAT.</p>
<p>^i did read the reviews online, i just wasn’t sure what was meant by a hit.</p>
<p>Hope it’s cleared up then =]</p>
<p>I just checked the stats- Direct Hits is right on! Did the author steal the CB vocab. list or something?</p>
<p>I have a question about Direct hits.</p>
<p>Are their ‘hits’ directly designed for a specific year? Although, this does seem unlikely.</p>
<p>yep its cleared up, thanks. And to answer your question above, they just give words that are most iikely to appear on the sat and it is updated every year to reflect the most commonly used words.</p>
<p>Thank-you for your response, but I think my question was to vauge to be answered. It’s hard to formulate this question.</p>
<p>Does direct hits formulate their books for a specific year, and then re-evaluate the next year? </p>
<p>“Ahh…these words came up this year…Chances of coming up next year…”</p>
<p>Or do they start from a blank slate again. </p>
<p>“This word has appeared 10 times…This word is the same difficulty of this word which has appeared 10 times…”</p>
<p>Basically, is it advantage to buy the 2011 edition(in 2011) as opposed to the 2010 eddition for the 2011 testing period. </p>
<p>Certainly it is best to buy both. </p>
<p>It’s an odd question that will most likely result in the assumed answer of new words. </p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to answer though.</p>
<p>i’m not totally sure how they come up with new books but i think the new editions are basically the same as older ones with the exception of a few words. For example, say they put the 400 most common words in their book, and say the word abase was the 400th most popular word while the word bombastic is the 401st in 2010. After the most recent sats, bombastic showed up once while abase didn’t show up, so the newer version would replace abase with bombastic. I’m only using these as hypothetical examples, but i hope it clears up your question. i’m almost positive they don’t start from scratch.</p>
<p>^Thank-you very much 
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<p>You, directly hit, the answer.</p>
<p>Last year the 2010 editions added around 35 new words. From reading the author’s bio in the books, it sounds like he does ongoing research on the words that appear on the tests so I would guess that there will be more new words in the 2011 edition.</p>
<p>My sons used the first and second editions and found both to be very helpful.</p>