<p>Man how do ppl get a 12 on their essay is beyond me? Anybody out there who can guide me? Many thnx</p>
<p>how much is the essay worth out of the entire writing score? 120 points?</p>
<p>Humna, search. There are lots of threads.</p>
<p>@Mister: It's like 30%. So 30*800/100= 240 points! You can get a 560 if you ace the multiple choices and get a 0 on the essay.</p>
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<p>As long as you jabber about something that has even a minute revelance to the quote, provide imaginary details, and write long and neat, you will be guaranteed a 12.</p>
<p>i did! but i still got 650 on the writing! essay is easy but the mc is not too easy for me. I'm aiming for 800 on the writing! Oh, and for the essay, basically what you are doing is trying to inspire the readers. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hey folks, I'm sorry for my first stupid post claiming that the essay is 240 points.</p>
<p>I just checked College Board's curves for Writing, and you can get anywhere from 650 to 690 with a 0 essay.</p>
<p>Well, you also have write not only legibly, but also neatly. Graders inevitably get prejudice upon facing a sloppy-written essay.</p>
<p>Agree with aisgzdavinci. Completely.</p>
<p>like thnx to everyone. It would be nice if sumbudy else cld also post sumfin</p>
<p>I would just like to say that writing things like, "like thnx to everyone. It would be nice if sumbudy else cld also post sumfin" now most likely will not help you get a good score on the essay later.</p>
<p>include these four components:
1. AN UNWAVERING POINT-OF-VIEW!
2. literature reference as an example backing up your opinion--include the author's name (generally, you'll be able to write about SOMETHING if you've read the adventures of huckleberry finn, 1984, and the great gatsby)
3. slightly obscure historical reference or a more general one about which you know details, again tied into your point-of-view (for example, i wrote about the cold war in one of my essays and the effects of the raid on harper's ferry in another)
4. decently "big" words.</p>
<p>No personal examples? I got an 11 and I used all personal examples.</p>
<p>My d got an 11 (670) and a 12 (780) on her SAT essays. For the "11" she used 3 examples: one literary, one historical and one personal. For the "12" she used a historical and a personal example.</p>
<p>I read both her essays on-line. I was curious because I am a reading teacher. Both her essays were well organized with topic and concluding sentences. They used good supporting details. They were writtten clearly and neatly. She varied her sentence structure throughout. However, neither essay used extensive vocabulary at all. No big SAT words! They were written in a way that communicated her ideas simply and precisely in her own voice. As a teacher, I was pleasantly surprised at the grading. I thought it was very fair and I was happy they were not looking for pretentious essays filled with impressive words. I gained more respect for the process.</p>
<p>Yes, vocabulary is not a big factor. Once, I threw in as many words as I could remember from Word Smart - in short, my essay was a burgeoning compendium of obscure verbiage - and got a 10, while my other essays were 11s.</p>
<p>What is a good historical event that works for many topics?</p>
<p>TONS!
Civil Rights Movement, World War II..
you can twist any event to almost any essay topic.</p>
<p>If you come up with a hero/ heroine from history, you can write about them in many ways and relate them to your own life and various themes in books. My daughter has used the same hero in just about every essay she has written, even though they have had different prompts.</p>
<p>Revolutionary war!!</p>
<p>I do know a number of high scorers who reuse a single example over and over again. Almost any major historical figure or event can work, as can most books that count as "literature." You might want to choose a good example and then flip through some example topics, thinking about how you would use your example for each one. Don't stress too much about which example(s) you use; just make sure you start writing early enough in your 25 minutes, and <em>be specific as you write.</em></p>
<p>uskoolfish, who is this hero of hers'?</p>