<p>If you took the June SAT Reasoning Test, you had one of the essay prompts below: </p>
<p>Prompt 1
Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.</p>
<p>Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation</p>
<p>Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn form the past and succeed in the present? 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>Prompt 2
I cannot comprehend those who emphasize or recognize only what is useful. I am concerned that learning for learning's sake is no longer considered desirable, that everything we do and think must be directed toward the solution of a practical problem. More and more we seem to try to teach how to make a good living and not how to live a good life.</p>
<p>Adapted from Philip D. Jordan, "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge"</p>
<p>Assignment: Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills? 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>Prompt 3
Most of our schools are not facing up to their responsibilities. We must begin to ask ourselves whether educators should help students address the critical moral choices and social issues of our time. Schools have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college. </p>
<p>Adapted from Svi Shapiro</p>
<p>Assignment: Should schools help students understand moral choices and social issues? 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>Prompt 4</p>
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<p>Is it just me, or does
"Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. "
look unfamiliar? I thought the CB used to say use historical, popculture, literary, etc. examples in your essay.</p>