<p>ACT essays are always jokes
i got an 11 and 12 on my last ones</p>
<p>Not a bad essay, but Science just killed my moral and I think I did poorly. Some thoughts and points were good, but it was cluttered and disorganized for me lol</p>
<p>^^Lol. I totally thought I misread the prompt too when I came on here. I almost freaked out, wondering why I had discussed television so much, as they did mention the WORD “homework” in the prompt. :s</p>
<p>lol. why did this thread get recycled anyway?</p>
<p>I probably got a 9, maybe 10.</p>
<p>2.5 pages for me but i started out with a cool intro so many maybe a 9 or 10, got a 8 last time</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone noticed that…
No wonder the prompt was different… xD</p>
<p>Feel kind of stupid too that I didn’t catch it was from 3 years ago! I didn’t think there was normally more than one prompt but figured maybe they were changing it up now!</p>
<p>I’m a published author and got a 6 last time. IDK why really, I mean, it wasn’t amazing but it wasn’t terrible either. And I HATED the topic!!</p>
<p>This time, I got the television one, and i was ecstatic because I wrote a 10-page term paper on television and children. I used real stats and studies from the paper and… well… got a bit carried away =___=
I wrote about 2.6 pages of pure brilliance (don’t mean to brag, but I spent a kazillion hours on that term paper and got a 94 - the prof uses it as an exemplar), but had A HALF A SENTENCE for a conclusion. Bloody time constraints.
How screwed am I? I mean, it was your typical uberorganized five paragraph essay sans grammatical errors from what I remember (because I’ve always been so fastidious about grammar and vocab that nowadays it just comes) - just sans-conclusion. My brain was very fried from the science section. I was discouraged because it was ultimate epic fail.
So yeah, I suck, what can I say? LOL.</p>
<p>wait…yours was all about homework? mine was about tv and how it makes students not care about school…</p>
<p>yeah mine was on TV</p>
<p>I totally forgot about proper examples…So had to jam one in the last paragraph before conclusion. Meh. Hopefully I’ll get a ten at the least (like last time)…</p>
<p>I had the television one. I used two examples: shows such as 60 Minutes that can prompt students to be “citizens of the world” rather than isolated within their communities and a true example of when my third grade teacher urged our parents to not let us watch TV. I used a good amount of “big words” effectively. I only had exactly two full pages (although my handwriting is somewhat small) and I only had a one sentence conclusion since I was running out of time (although it summed up the essay effectively, I think). I supported watching TV, with the caveat that parents should be aware of how their children respond to it and what they’re watching. </p>
<p>Obviously it’s near impossible to grade an essay without reading it, but what is an approximate range this could fall in? Thanks.</p>
<p>i was on the affirmative, not because i believe it but because i could just think of more examples. i’m a debater, and i wrote it in CWI format…made it a lot simpler. i think i said that the programs today didn’t encourage critical thinking, the constant advertisements foster vapid materialism, and there are just so many better things to do than sit on your couch and watch tv.</p>
<p>@open: What’s the CWI format? I’ve never heard of it before?</p>
<p>I supported watching television as well. I mentioned younger educational shows such as “Blues Clues,” and “Barney.”</p>
<p>I’m so freaked though, and can’t find it anywhere, when handwriting TV show titles, you put them in quotes right? When typing, I know you put them in italics, but…</p>
<p>You guys are causing me to majorly freak out!! lol I want a 12, but only got to around 1.75 pages. I did the whole 5 paragraph essay format, with intro, two pro body paragraphs, a con body paragraph, and a conclusion. </p>
<p>I also got the TV prompt. I kept talking about how there are other distractions, how the news is good, and then how there are worse things to procrastinate with. Basically lesser of the two evils.</p>
<p>What do you all think I will get?</p>
<p>swimchica, don’t worry about length; it’s quality, not quantity. If the essay graders base their scores off of quantity, they are complete idiots.</p>
<p>Best answer ever, SA-07. :)</p>
<p>thank you, thank you</p>
<p>“swimchica, don’t worry about length; it’s quality, not quantity. If the essay graders base their scores off of quantity, they are complete idiots.”</p>
<p>While you may be right, those “complete idiots” also re-used an ENTIRE ACT test.</p>
<p>Generally, the longer the essay the more the points. Look at the examples in the redbook. Now, i’m not saying write a BS essay for 3 pages, but, generally if you don’t have length but do have good quality you’re probably looking at a 10.</p>