<p>I was wondering how you guys think you did on your essay and what examples you used.</p>
<p>On my previous 2 SAT's I scored a 7 and 8, but this time I think I did really well and am looking forward to a 10-12.</p>
<p>My essay was on 'unlearn' tradtions</p>
<p>My examples:
French Revolution - revolutionaries used enlightenment ideals to overthrow monarchy and nobility, both of which were tradtionally held beliefs.</p>
<p>Newton Copernucus - challenged the centruries old belief of the geocentric universe and are today considered some of the best scientific minds of their time.</p>
<p>My preperation for the SAT - I have to rethink some of my tradtionally held grammer rules. (were bad example, I know)</p>
<p>I got the one about whether it's right for someone to take two sides of an oppoing view. I wrote that you can't take 2 sides, and wrote about gay rights.</p>
<p>I got a question though, is it possible to get a good score with only 1 body paragraph? The essay still had decent lenght, about a page and a half, but only 1 body.</p>
<p>The SAT Prep I used said it is possible to get a good score with 1 detailed example vs. 3 short ones, but it is better to do 3. But as long as that one paragraph was well develped you should be fine.</p>
<p>Only thing is I would not have written about such a controversial isuue, you never know who grades your essay.</p>
<p>Hey would using more elegant examples get you a better score? For example using a classic novel instead of personal experiences. Or like the French Revolution vs. a fight w/a friend?</p>
<p>@mohua: hey I got the same prompt. I said yes, people should definitely give up old ideas to accepts new ideas. what do you think about my eassay?
Examples:
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: The refusal to accept new ideas from the Europeans ultimately led to the tribe's falling apart.
- The collapse of communism: giving up the nonworking idea of communism and accepting new idea of democracy.
- My personal experience.
decent intro and closing.</p>
<p>I think you will get 10-12 for those strong examples.</p>
<p>I had "unlearning" values, assumptions, ideas, etc.</p>
<p>My examples:
"Night" by Elie Wiesel - in retrospect, it didn't really fit with my thesis, but i think it will suffice</p>
<p>"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley - about rejecting mob opinion</p>
<p>Prejudice in general - I really had to rush this paragraph, and i think it ended up only two sentences long... ergh! talked about racism, slavery, religious persecution.</p>
<p>I wanted to talk about gay rights and how people have to unlearn their values to accept a more open and tolerant world, but I didn't want to turn it into a political statement. </p>
<p>I think I did well, but every other time I thought I did well, I actually didn't. got 9 on SAT before and 8 on ACT.</p>
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I got the one about whether it's right for someone to take two sides of an oppoing view. I wrote that you can't take 2 sides, and wrote about gay rights.
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<p>I got that too, except I wrote mines about stem cell research.</p>
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and galileo galilei (i meant him, but i wrote Aristotle ... )
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Dude, i feel bad for you. But guess what? The grader probably don't have sufficient knowledge to judge your example :D It's my opinion. In Oct SAT, I even made up a novel and my own characters and story. I ended up with a 9 for that essay :D</p>
<p>I hated the topic. It was really hard for me to write something on it. </p>
<p>I argued instead of unlearning one should keep learning. </p>
<p>I used Protestant Reformation, Rise of Islam, and mid-east troubles in modern day. I wanted to bridge both with a talk of Spain but due to space I introduced every essay with an introduction to a scene; it was kind play-like in a way.</p>
<p>I did partisan politics and an article in a recent issue of the economists
Then i did something on 1984 lol,
I think i did horrible. I am not sure what i was thinking. I don;t think i will get the 10 i got frosh year.</p>
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<li>Senator Henry Clay aka the Great Compromiser </li>
<li>The foundation of the US constitution (state vs federal power)</li>
<li>Atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird avoids physical confrontation w/ Mr. Ewell</li>
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<p>Pulled the last example out of my ass as i couldnt really think of a good one</p>
<p>The validitity of your statements suposedly does not affect your score, but how you argue it. You can completely make up all your examples (even though it better to use real ones because it quicker and easier) and still score a 12. Basically want to test your writing skills - not your history skills. As long as its not totally absurd (like aliens invading) and you argue it well, you should do fine. </p>
<p>Only problem is I learned this only recently, and did not know this in time fore my first 2 tests...</p>
<p>PS
:A-Card, I think partisan politics is probably one of the examples for that promt.</p>
<p>Slavery
Women's rights (how people believed women were only good enough to be housewives, etc.)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (main character goes against traditional ideas of architecture, he refuses to compromise his new ideas for old ones because he doesn't believe in them, even goes as far as to burn down a building because it wasn't built with his new ideas, author is saying how individuals are the key to changing society's preconceptions blah blah)</p>
<p>I think it's really easy to get a 12... Last time my ideas were just as simple and I even confused the end of a novel with the movie version but ended up getting a 12.</p>
<p>I used: Women, Sojourner Truth, The Poisonwood Bible, Minorities, and Science. Also I filled up both pages and all the lines. So I hope I get a good score. I only had two detail paragraphs, but they were each like 3/4 of a page each.</p>
<p>Is it hard to get an 11 since most of the time the scorers give you the same score?</p>