<p>I was looking at the sample essays in the ACT pre book and it seems different from the SAT essays. The ACT seems to stress opinions more than random facts like the SAT wants (e.g facts from history and literature). Please tell me what the ACT essays graders look for in an essay? I actually like the support-from-facts style of the SAT writing more than personal opinions on the ACT. Please respond. Thanks.</p>
<p>This is coming from a person who got a 11 on the ACT writing</p>
<ol>
<li>Acknoledge the other side in your point of view ( While critics may say this,....)</li>
<li>Variety of setences and punctuation</li>
<li> Good organization (example, 3 point thesis in a 5 paragrpah essay)</li>
</ol>
<p>write as much as you want, the ACT writing gives you plently of space, unlike the SAT writing.</p>
<p>Although there can be various styles for the perfect score, the general structure looked similar.</p>
<p>1.Intro
2.counterargument
3.eg1
4.eg2
5.eg3
6.conclusion
This is what most high score essay is like and whether you take ACT or SAT it is always good to back up your thesis with examples from lit or history.</p>
<p>But I listed pretty general examples for my ACT essay and got 10 out of 12.</p>
<p>Therefore, my best advice is to look up several ACT and SAT books.</p>
<p>ACT book from Princeton has some great advice on how to construct ACT essay so it can give you an idea of what your essay should look like.
After reviewing several books, I think you might find the difference.</p>
<p>ps: I still think they are similar</p>
<p>So I guess I can derive two of my examples from history and literature and derive one of them from logical things. And a counterargument is a good thing? I didn't make one on my SAT and I got a 10. Maybe if I made a counterargument I would have gotten a 11? Bump and thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>The ACT essay topic was one that my daughter researched extensively for an English paper, so she had all of the facts and was totally confident. When the comments came back, the grader said that all of the facts limited the amount of "discussion," so our impression is that where the SAT is looking for argument supported by facts, ACT may be looking more for an opinion paper.</p>
<p>what are colleges going to do when someone has such differing scores from the SAT and ACT? I made a 10 on SAT and only a 7 on ACT. what are they going to do? Isn't this the readers opinion? obviously I think so from my completely different scores</p>
<p>how long do u get to write the essay?</p>