<p>It seems to me that a conclusion was not all that important. I tried to make sure I completely finished mine with a conclusion paragraph. I see some people here didn't even have a conclusion, or stopped mid sentence and got an 11 or 12. I think I may need to revamp my approach. All my teachers and friends who took review classes said to write a 5 paragraph essay. </p>
<p>It seems those who just took it as something you would write about in English class, but only got half of it done were rewarded. I think next time I will go for 1-2 well developed points with a solid intro, and a short conclusion.</p>
<p>ugh I got an eight...I would have gotten the 800 if I had just gotten a 10... -_-;
I write for my school newspaper, so I guess my style is more entertainment than the structured, formulaic compositions the graders were looking for...oh well, that's just one more thing to remember in May...</p>
<p>i got a 12. 4 full paragraphs.</p>
<p>12- long-ish intro, 2 body and terrible conclusion (running out of time), handwriting barely legible 2 example but one strong overall theme...just tried to be superpersuasive</p>
<p>I am just really confused by the whole essay process. I write for a hockey website which is pretty prestigious (3rd most read site about hockey on the web) and I have my own column and everything.</p>
<p>However, on this test, my essay was 8. I didn't think it was really that bad of a piece of writing although it wasn't my best. I had two decent examples and a decent intro and conclusion. Not an 11-12, but I was hoping to get a 10 out of it or a 9 at the least. It's rather frustrating considering that on my PSAT, my projected writing score was like 740-780 and I ended up with a 690.</p>
<p>I got a 12 and used 5 "full" paragraphs (1st = introduction with a clear cut thesis...pretty important in this test, last = conclusion which neatly sums everything up without restating the thesis). The middle three paragraphs were somewhat abstract arguments about creativity (ex: Bush's proposed social security reforms and how he should be creative in how he handles them)...and that was it.</p>
<p>I got a 12 </p>
<p>Wrote 4 paragraphs (one on Founding Fathers and the other on Civil Rights and the white majority)</p>
<p>They look for quality, not quantity (though I filled up both pages in booklet). I have horrible penmanship, so I just printed...</p>
<p>12 - 5 pps. (Majority essay.) </p>
<p>wrote about dictatorships, something by ayn rand, and basketball.</p>
<p>Ayn Rand??? haha, holy crap - it wasnt about objectivism... but i can see the correlation</p>
<p>i got 11</p>
<p>it's not that hard to be honest, all u have to do is pick solid examples (i nearly always use 1984 or Brave New World in all of my earlier practice essays), set CLEAR transitions, and don't be overly concerned with sugarcoating ur essay</p>
<p>on the length, i found that 5 paragraphs usually leaves me (with little or no effort) easily landing on the bottom lines of the last page</p>
<p>I got a 12 - Creativity.</p>
<p>5 paragraphs. Intro/3 body/conclusion, and a good thesis, IMO.</p>
<p>3 examples: The Guernica by Picasso (painting), Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter), Bill Gates (computers)</p>