<p>Ive heard many good things about DH. I was wondering what makes it better than say PR Hit Parade or Kaplan flashcards? Also is it worth the money?</p>
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<p>DH includes the most frequent words on the SAT. Remembering all of those can help you get through about 80% of the vocab questions. Of course, CB is playing a whole new game now, with some “new” difficult words sprinkled in the last few vocab questions. Surely CB is smarter than just simply letting the students getting a grip of how the vocab questions work right? With the availability of reference books out there, CB has to “improve” its questions as well. So you should study words outside DH as well, if you want to get all the vocab questions right.</p>
<p>Well after you are done with DH (don’t worry, it’s not that long), it would be good if you can study PR Hit Parade and Kaplan flashcards as well. You will see lots of words repeated though -.-</p>
<p>And if you have not studied many words yet, then DH is definitely worth the money. But if you have studied lots of words then DH will probably seem uncalled for =)</p>
<p>It has the most frequently repeated ~400 words, it also gives you examples of the words mentioned. I studied both DH and PR Hit Parade and I usually get 16-19 SC correct answers; I suggest you study both of them as well</p>
<p>There are some really good free lists out there, with just as many or more ‘hits’ than DH. Look for lists in which the author has cataloged at least 50 tests and determined the most commonly occurring words. I’d give you links, but it’s discouraged for tutors to recommend specific companies here.</p>
<p>DH is/was different for the efforts to present the words in an easier to remember context. There is, however, NOTHING magical about the choice of words, as the selection was based on past tests. Someone could do just as well by READING the older versions of the “Blue Book” or rely on a list of words from those sources. They must still be floating around. </p>
<p>Grabbing a DH book and spending a bit on time reading it is not a bad idea, and an idea that is worth a lot more than the absolutely futile and mindless proposal to dig into the asinine 3,500 or more lists of words a la Barron’s. The only exception might be for foreign students who have not reached a level of high school in English.</p>
<p>As far TCB making the words tested on the SAT more difficult, the writers do not have to spend time analyzing the “leaked” words as they can make EASY words incredibly difficult by testing the secondary or tertiary meaning of words. After all, how do the “writers” of such lists deal with terms such as table or rank, when they relate to motions of the smell of a cigar? The answer is that they don’t but serve a bunch of words to a crowd that does not know any better. </p>
<p>All in all, if you want to increase your SAT vocabulary, start by reading WITH ATTENTION the sea of available older tests. No need for BS lists.</p>