This is an opinion based question…
What do you think would happen if the College Board gave controversial topics to write about in the essay portion of the SAT? I was thinking topics such as religion, terrorism, gay rights, abortion, nuclear weapons, etc… I feel like I would do a hundred times better on the essay if I was given a contentious proposition.
It would make it a lot harder for the graders to be objective…they’re only human.
If I had to read an essay advocating, say, shooting all stray dogs, I would be hard-pressed to separate my feelings as an animal shelter volunteer from my feelings about the essay as a grader.