December 2009 SAT Writing Thread

<p>8 Essay -2 would be lower than that…</p>

<p>720ish</p>

<p>in october 8 essay yielded the following:</p>

<p>-0 = 790 (i got this)
-1 = 750
-2 = 720
-3 = 680</p>

<p>Here’s hoping my essay is miraculously a 9 and that you guys are wrong about one of the questions. :stuck_out_tongue: jk There’s only 1 I think I got wrong but I put 2 to be safe.</p>

<p>The one about the oil spill…I was totally confused, very awkward sentence but I couldn’t identify the exact error so I put NE. I think the with was wrong thinking back, but even if it was from, it was a weird sentence!</p>

<p>What would a 9 essay and -1 be? Thanks again!</p>

<p>How many could I miss with a 10 essay and still get a 800?</p>

<p>Around 750?</p>

<p>Based on the given answers, I may have aced writing.</p>

<p>The only one for which I can’t recall what I put is the “Mayor” one. Can someone reproduce it approximately?</p>

<p>what would a 11 essay yield?</p>

<p>i think i aced it</p>

<p>do you guys remember what the mainland sentence was exactly?</p>

<p>A wingspan of 8 feet makes the trumpeter swan, once ranged over north america, the largest species in the globe.</p>

<p>pretty close to that. i thought the phrase “once ranged over north america” sounded pretty weird…but the only underlined answer choice for that was “once” and i thought “once” sounded perfectly fine. put no error.</p>

<p>i forgot the mainland sentenced exactly</p>

<p>something about oil spills…but im pretty sure i put D for that. it was “or” …or something when it should have been and…or vice versa…but i know i put D for sure.</p>

<p>curves from the new blue book edition…</p>

<p>11 essay:</p>

<p>Raw score</p>

<p>49 - 800
48-800
47-770
46-750
45- 740
44-720
43-710
42-700</p>

<p>for the question one in the last 10 min writing section. The one about the ringing of the bells in the roman chapel (come/comes)?
I picked come but my friends picked comes?
What did u all get?</p>

<p>It is comes. I remember it being the first question on the last section?</p>

<p>What was the answer to the “cicadas” question?</p>

<p>Do you remember the sentence? I believe I put no error but I can’t quite remmeber the question.</p>

<p>also, sorry I’m not sure if a decision was made yet but was “preoccupation with” an error?</p>

<p>I think I got all MC right, but wrote a mediocre essay. Can I get an 800 with an 8 essay and 49 Mc?</p>

<p>its possible I think my friend got perfect MC and a 9 essay and got 800 but idk about 8</p>

<p>I got an 800 with a perfect MC and a 9 essay last time, so maybe</p>

<p>Yeah, I got a 10 essay last time with a 80mc and got a 800.</p>

<p>The cicadas question had to do with mating calls and patterns, sorry, I don’t remember the sentence. </p>

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<p>I don’t believe that it was an error.</p>

<p>Yeah, the cicadas question had to make the second part of the sentence a phrase. I don’t remember the answer X_x</p>

<p>for the cicadas one, i put an answer with ,plus</p>

<p>seem familiar to anyone???</p>

<p>and also, what was the one the last one in that section, the one about the guy working too hard and loving money?
I put the answer that was like that paid well but that blah blah blah</p>