<p>So I came up with this bright idea to post essay prompts from past SAT tests. Set the timer to 25min and write the essay on PAPER and not on the forum since typing is harder/easier than writing. Post it here and I'll try to evaluate and score the essay with the best of my abilities. I'll write the essay and you guys can judge mine and others'. I am hoping this will help me as well as others that need to practice writing. So here is the first essay prompt:</p>
<p>People who like to think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this view, the basic law by which people must live is the law of the jungle. The fittest are those people who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.</p>
<p>Assignment: Do people have to be highly competitive in order to succeed? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>PS: I have a statistics/english test tomorrow and need to finish up my SAT practice so I don't have the time to write one tonight. But I will be more than glad if someone can start this writing fest.</p>