<p>I'm assuming everyone had the same one about teachers vs. students on who should take blame.</p>
<p>They couldn't have picked a topic I care less about.</p>
<p>What about: "Should tardiness be punished?", or something to that effect... They are all horrible.</p>
<p>One thing the ACT fails at compared to the SAT by far. Atleast in the SAT the prompts are so general you can use various examples. I understand the ACT wants prompts that correlate with High School but they just end up making prompts that are just fail.</p>
<p>I thought this prompt was amazing. It's something I have a strong opinion about, and I don't see how other people don't share a strong opinion as well. Unless you go to a prep school or an extremely well-funded public school, this is a very real problem, and since most American students don't go to either they're faced with it as well.</p>
<p>The SAT essay prompts I've run into are just plain bad. They're either too general or too specific, and nothing in between. Then again, this is just my opinion.</p>
<p>I couldn't strongly support either side, so I ended up taking the middle road.</p>
<p>I would prefer if it was more about what could be done to solve an issue, rather than just write about the issue.</p>
<p>I had a really hard time thinking of supports for the side "Students are responsible"</p>
<p>All I could think of was "Motivation" and then I BSed the rest. What points did other people use? Just curious...</p>
<p>To make your essay stand out from everyone else's you must make it differen't. The trick is to take the topic and warp it a little(not to much or else they wont grade it) and make a specific argument and central theme. For this ACT I changed my subject of the essay to, Parents, administrators, ect.... constantly are trying to find out why students are underperforming. Two sides have emerged, students fault vs. teachers fault. Then rather choose one side and lock myself in, i claimed it was was a combo of both teachers and students. Then I gave two personal stories to back up both sides, and I descirbed the interlaced relationship. I'm hoping for at least an 11 this time around. I got a 10 last time.</p>
<p>Dude, that essay was amazing!!! There wasn't a topic they could've given than i cared more about. Hoping for a 12/12!!</p>
<p>Yeah, it was pretty easy to write about. I felt so strongly on the topic, I wrote 2 pages and I write small, finishing like 7 minutes before time was called. I wish the SAT essays were like this.</p>
<p>Haha yes this was a dull prompt. However still managed to put down that teachers can only "inspire" students who have the motivation to be inspired.</p>
<p>idk, warpig i feel like you may have gone too far. let me know what kind of score you get, if its good ill keep that stuff in mind for future tests</p>
<p>hahah....I think this prompt wasn't too bad for me, seeing how I had previously wrote something similar about it for school...</p>
<p>I actually said it is the parents fault for unmotivated students..and then said how parents don't take the blame and how they don't discipline children (like with video games and internet use)</p>