Essay Spelling Mistake

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<p>On the March SAT I got a 12, and I felt that my writing was equally good on the May SAT. Yetttt, I realized that on the May essay I spelled theory wrong about 3 to 4 times. (I spelled it theorey). I have already given up on a 12 again...but could my mispelling bring my essay down to an 8?</p>

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<p>yea i spelt prestige as pristige ...but i thought my essay was amazing--would that automatically ruin my chances of a 12?</p>

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<p>^ carolineee144
theoreytically, yeyssss. lol
presuming that you've maintained the quality of your writing and the range of your vocab, i'd expect graders disregard stupid spelling mistakes, even if consistent.</p>

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<p>They do disregard stupid mistakes.
If you check [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=326060%5Dhere%5B/url"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=326060]here[/url&lt;/a&gt;] you will see that some spelling errors are disregarded. Naidu, the OP of this thread made some mistakes which were gracefully disregarded and she still managed to attain a 12. But bear in mind that this is not the case in general, and it can be dependent upon the grader. But I also saw another 12-essay thread which basically validated this point, namely that some mistakes do not bring your grade down.</p>

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<p>I made mistakes because I was rushed --> like any mortal human being :D</p>

<p>BTW OP, the SAT essay is supposed to be a rough draft and mistakes are allowed :o</p>

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<p>Last time I made several spelling and grammatical errors, but still got 12.</p>

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<p>what if the essay sucked as far as support and structure goes (no conclusion lol) but it was very eloquent and clear and stuff?
will that save me?</p>

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<p>It's twenty five minute writing, the rubric is designed to look for positive things to give points for, and they read your essay in a minute and a half typically.</p>

<p>Also, at that speed, their brain might automatically correct words (if I read fast through something, I read over the misspellings). I think it's possible that you could get a 12, but I would say less than 9 would be unlikely.</p>