<p>So I was studying for October SAT recently and have been going through Direct Hits, Obviously, Direct Hits has a great track record for the sentence completion portion of the SAT. Say if on a tough question I eliminate about 2 or 3 answers. I know one answer choice’s definition from direct hits, and the definitions sort of fit the sentence. The other answer choices I only have a very small clue as to what the words mean but they are also candidates for the answer. Should I go with the answer with the words from Direct Hits because it may be a “hit”, or should I go with the other answer contemplating that the words may be “indirect hits”?</p>
<p>Generally, if you’re trying to use the word and it “sort of fits” but doesn’t naturally fit, it’s probably wrong. Every answer to every SAT question will be unambiguous. If you know the meaning of the Direct Hit word, don’t try to fit a square peg in a round hole.</p>
<p>^This advice is logical. However, words can have multiple meanings. So if the definition sort of fits based on your knowledge, it may be a perfect fit based on a more complete understanding of the definition. This question illustrates well one of the drawbacks with studying vocabulary.</p>
<p>@thebossofbosses You’ll find that you see many familiar words while practicing previous tests because after all , the word list in the book is compiled from such test. I had sort of the same trouble at first. It is easy to tell you that just cause you know the word , doesn’t necessarily make it the answer , but that probably won’t solve the answer because your brain will always try to convince you that the “Known” word is the correct answer and somehow fit it in the blank</p>
<p>My biggest Tip is to hide the answers from your eyesight while reading the question and come up with your own word ( I am sure that you must have heard this over ten times by now!) </p>
<p>Go to Youtube and search sentence completion strategies ( The Kaplan ones are good)
It’ll 1. make you know the types of SC questions
2. teach you how to gather clues with which you can come up with your own word and eliminate catchy wrong answers. </p>
<p>Hope this helps :)</p>
<p>The Direct Hits series have provided thousands of words that have been seen on previously administered SATs for quite the time… there’s no doubt you’ll find a large portion of them in your next CR/Writing test</p>