<p>I get around 550 in CR, other sections are good enough.</p>
<p>My test is in June (few days remaining). I bought Direct Hits, and will try to memorize all the words tomorrow, and revise after tomorrow.</p>
<p>My weakest point is vocab, which makes reading passages really hard and time consuming, so I get in the range of 550.</p>
<p>Will learning the vocab in DH help me with passage-based questions? Will it help me do it well that I get 650?</p>
<p>I know I have only few days remaining, but I am pretty confident I can memorize the words, and do some practice; but if the vocab won't help much, then I would choose to just do more practice from the BB.</p>
<p>Well, if you are having trouble grasping the concepts of a passage due to vocabulary, I would think it would help to ameliorate your CR score. Also take into consideration, DH is not restricted to strictly banal sentence completion questions.</p>
<p>Practice helps you on passages. Direct hits mostly helps you on sentence completions. It helps on passages to an extent.</p>
<p>Well there’s one week until the Independent Day (I can finally be free from SAT), so I’m not sure, even if you memorize everything in DH, your score will improve dramatically. Vocab is essential, but not everything, in CR. I suggest you should take your time studying DH, but focus on M + W, which are much easier to get high scores. As for CR, if you study consistenly, you are bound to get a high score in October.</p>
<p>Something about trying to memorize hundreds of words in 7 days seems oddly flawed to me.</p>
<p>Actually, it really helps on Sentence Completions.</p>
<p>DH is just vocab book. It only has a few practice examples. You need a book that has vocab words plus CR practice examples.</p>