<p>how harmful is it to get President Hoover mixed up with Wilson in the essay???????????? I was contrasting FDR with the previous president and talking about the new deal etc.</p>
<p>BUT I PUT WILSON INSTEAD OF HOOVER as the "previous" president</p>
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<p>Doesn't matter. Some people even make up books and movies as examples.</p>
<p>SAT graders overlook factual errors, only grading your writing ability.</p>
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<p>Oh my God, that is so, SO CREEPY! I wrote about the exact same essay topic!</p>
<p>I also used Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice.</p>
<p>Anyways, to answer your question: I doubt it will really matter that much. They can't deduct points from your knowledge of facts. They literally ONLY grade your writing ability. Don't worry too much about it!</p>
<p>haha wow..yeah, my friends told me to try to use historical examples whenever possible...but now I just feel really really dumb.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies/consolation...i'll definitely be looking forward to valentines day this year.</p>
<p>^which essay did you guys get? With the topic I got, I feel that it's VERY hard to even think about Hoover/Wilson with my essay topic...</p>
<p>I got the prompt that asked if the effort behind achieving goals valuable even if you fail. Couldn't think of any historical/literature examples so I just used some generic ones.</p>
<p>We had one about whether being original is better than using/building upon the ideas of those before you. I assume slshi had the some one as me, or that would make it even creepier...</p>
<p>No wonder... IMO, ours was WEIRDER by a mile.. It was asking if belonging to a group is valuable for people. Even now, I can't think of a literary example to support this. (I considered using Orwell's 1984, but it was too weak of a connection to the topic to get a solid grade)</p>
<p>Disneyguy, I think your topic was very similar (if not identical) to a prompt of a RR practice essay I took... bah, I'm just rambling, because I wrote half of one sentence for my conclusion</p>
<p>lol I didn't know that we could get diff essay topics for the same SATs..</p>
<p>yeah mine was along the lines of "Is being original always better than imitating the ideas, thoguhts, whatevers of others?"</p>
<p>yeah, one of RR's practice essays was exactly like the essay I got today. and coincidentally, I talked about FDR's New Deal too!</p>
<p>I got the same one as you skatj</p>
<p>Looking at the other prompts, I'd say that one was the easiest. The other prompts seem pretty hard; I'd have a hard time coming up with examples for those.</p>
<p>i also had the prompt about goals being valuable even if u fail.</p>
<p>imo, a good literary example for "belonging to groups" or whatever that topic was would be Catcher in the Rye simply because the main character, Holden, doesn't belong to any...everybody else is a "phony"</p>
<p>also, you could include gatsby's "group" from the Great Gatsby</p>
<p>who am i to talk though, i used George Bush and myself on my essay =)</p>
<p>i had the " be originial or follow the paths of other"</p>
<p>i talked about itzhak perlman and bassi de loni..:)</p>
<p>For those of you who had the prompt about people joining groups, was it phrased as "is there value in joining groups of people with whom one has SOMETHING in common??" or "NOTHING in common?" I am really scared I read it wrong.</p>
<p>I also had the "being original or copying others ideas/thoughts" essay question. I used various people as examples such as Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, etc. I was rushing too much that I forgot to stop for a second to just think about a novel or two that I could incorporate into my essay. I regret not doing that at the moment; besides, I probably did worse on the CR and M anyways. Time to go make myself feel stupid.</p>
<p>I had the same essay as you, patel.</p>
<p>I used the Constitution borrowing from James Locke and the Constitution of the Iroqois Nation, Richard Wright in Black Boy using some of the ideas of Communism, and a personal example about myself as a writer that I related back to John Steinbeck using Biblical stories for East of Eden. </p>
<p>Good examples, I think?</p>