Attention International Students - Important Message

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<p>Here is a list of the Level 3 - 5 words that were answers to questions on the October International 2010 SAT:</p>

<p>Conjecture, overwrought, pristine, quixotic, unaffected, diffidence, meticulous, unconventional, plausible, enigma, elusive, assuage, indigenous, duplicity, vituperative, inquisition, conundrum, and ambiguous.</p>

<p>What do all these words have in common? They are all from the March 08 SAT AND 17 of the 18 words are in the 2011 edition of Direct Hits. (Unaffected was the only miss). Why this overlap? Unlike other vocabulary books, DH actually takes the tests, pays attention to College Confidential, and updates its list of words every year. What does this mean? As long as the College Board continues to use recycle previously used tests, international students should absolutely positively use the 2011 edition of DH to prepare for the SAT.</p>

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<p>I wish that I had taken this test. I know most of the words there :O</p>

<p>Hey Dark Knight, how about the October American SAT ? Did Direct Hits hit directly too ? ^ ^</p>

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<p>^DH scored a number of impressive hits on the Saturday test.</p>

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<p>^You know what, I haven’t bought this direct hits at all, but I have studied a voluminous amount of SAT college-level words and after this , whenever I search for a new SAT words book, I find myself thorough with all the words except for very few. And, by the way, those words above, are soooo easy!</p>

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<p>if those words above were the answer for March 2008 CR test in America then YAY! Got most of them in my test :D</p>

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<p>I have Direct Hits 2010 edition, can it affect? Or they are the same?</p>

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<p>^ I got both 2010 and 2011 thx to the info here on CC, and it seems that many words from 2010 re-appear on 2011.</p>

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<p>ok. I ordered Collection of Jane Austen’s novels. I believe it will improve my CR. In addition, I almost memorized Direct Hits 2010: 380/435. After that I’m going to memorize Rocket Review 323+skim barron’s 3500. Is that enough for 2000 in December? Vocabulary affects sentence-complition(95%), passage-based reading(75%), essay(25%) and, finally, writing(15%).</p>

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<p>OP, I think vituperative was actually in form of a noun “vituperation” but I guess that is a legit hit. FYI…:)</p>

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<p>I got all the vocab questions right! Sparknotes is awesome. The 1000 word list is free and exhaustive.</p>

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<p>is there any possibility to have an idea of what might come in the international sat of november?</p>

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<p>@fiorepaola: From what I’ve heard, Collegeboard randomly picks an unpublished test. There are seven tests every year, yet only four are published. So the other three might be reused for future tests. :)</p>

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<p>Thanks Dark Night,
so what are new words on Direct Hits 2011? I don’t have those new versions.
Can anyone help me list the words :slight_smile: . I really appreciate it.</p>