<p>I just got my score report and I got a 7 essay, wtf</p>
<p>it was insane critical lens, asking about how world of science collides with world or arts and how they have nothing to say to each other</p>
<p>they score the essays based on grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and paragraph structure. To get a 12, you almost always need to do the following:</p>
<p>1) 5 paragaphs
2) clear intro, 3 bodies, clear conclu
3) vary sentence structure
4) make NO grammar mistakes (several grammar mistakes will be a killer, you'll get below 10 even with an awesome essay)</p>
<p>uhm, i'm pretty sure that was the nov. sat writing. If it wasn't, then oh boy i made quite a few mistakes on my applications.</p>
<p>wow that sounds like a really hard topic to write on. What examples did you use?</p>
<p>yeah that was the november essay. holy crappola the topic took my by suprise. i only got a 9 on it and I used the evolution/creation debacle for science/arts.</p>
<p>in myoct SAT writing da topic waz "A great decision was made when ......"</p>
<p>i thought i did it very well compared to the june test, but i got only an 8... in june i got a 7! </p>
<p>i hate the essay portion.. im a gud writer n have won many essay comp... but i like to take my time n analize topics i write on... i just cant think hard enough under so much pressure!</p>
<p>i got an 8 on the essay, and i used up the entire first page, and about 1/3 of the second page. </p>
<p>length matters pretty much the most. if you have a cohesive essay, and it is lengthy(use just about all the space), then you will get 10+</p>
<p>i got a 10</p>
<p>got a 10. I took the sunday test, and the topic was something like "closed doors lead to creativity. Explain your view".</p>
<p>My prompt for october was the great decision one. I wrote a decent essay- it's pretty ridiculous to write an essay in 20 minutes though. Guess it was good enough cus I got an 11. It's definitely good to talk about literature or history, it's better than personal experience in my opinion. The first time I took writing I used personal experience and got an 8- and also didn't do the last 10 questions by accident and got a crappy score as a result. The writing sat2 is pretty hard in my opinion but that's because I'm kinda dyslexic. Totally not fair, but hey I ended up doing well anyway.</p>
<p>I had the great decision one and it was really easy for me because it was so broad. I can see how it could be very hard to think of an example on the spot because there are so many thing you could write. But I had done five practice essays before and just changed one of them a little to fit this question. So doing practice tests helps not necessarily because you learn how to write a good essay quickly, but because you end up writing a lot of essays and can use one of them if you're lucky.</p>
<p>I got a 10 which I was pretty happy with b/c I am incredibly bad at writing quickly most of the time so I was expecting the essay to be my downfall.</p>
<p>I got a 9...</p>
<p>Mine was all over the place but i think what got me to EVEn get a 9 was my description of Monet and Einstein or something like that...</p>
<p>I took the October, wrote about transcontinental railroad, got an 11 or something, got an 800 on the test...</p>
<p>I got a 9 , my grammar sucks so MUCH</p>
<p>I wrote about how the world of art and scienc collide with each other...Leanardo Da Vanci ,Michael Angelo , Renassiance man , how your left brain should work with your brain brain( psychology terms) etc. I think my essay was great but the grammar killed my grade</p>