How is the essay scored

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<p>i know it's a 1-6 i got a five but how does that effect the overall score?</p>

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<p>does anyone know? i'm made a mistake on my overall score i think</p>

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<p>Two readers each assign a score of 0 - 6 and the scores are added. A 5 means that one reader scored a 3 and the other a 2. The standards for scoring can be found at</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prof/counselors/tests/sat/scores/guide.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prof/counselors/tests/sat/scores/guide.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If the two readers disagree by more than one point (2 and 4 for example), a supervisor reads the essay and resolves the conflict. This is why you can't earn a 5 with one reader scoring the essay a 1 and the other scoring it a 4.</p>

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<p>If you order the Q & A service, then the direct affect of your essay to your overall Writing score will be shown through a table. For example, they will have your multiple choice subscore on the y-axis and the essay score on the x-axis. Match your two scores together and that should be your writing score. Then with the same subscore, match it with a 6 essay (one higher than yours) and see how much it would have affected your score if you had gotten a 6 instead of a 5. I'm pretty sure each test has a different table for the writing score. The one downside to this is that Q/A service comes centuries after the test.</p>

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<p>From what I've read, it all depends on how LONG your essay is. There were several flaming articles about it shortly after they started doing the SAT essay & someone held the essay across the room & the writer guessed the score (by the length of the essay) & was write a very high % of the time. Longest was a 12, shortest was lower score.</p>

<p>Whether facts are correct or not is wholly irrelevant for scoring the essay as well.</p>

<p>Here's an article about it:</p>

<p><a href="http://annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/0/3/427850F70255903D/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/0/3/427850F70255903D/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>hi mom...cooking me my favorite food?</p>

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<p>Don't confuse correlation with cause and effect. Given the time constraints, essays that are written well (higher scoring) tend to be longer, but longer essays are not always well-written. With more time, well-written essays could be shorter.</p>

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<p>the essay is not graded terribly hard...</p>

<p>1) graders spend an avg. of 50 sec per essay
2) long essay + good transitions + some SAT-caliber words + specific examples (e.g. stats that so many people died at this battle) = 12 (or close)</p>

<p>the essay is graded holistically, if you have a fact wrong that won't really affect your score, as long as you can prove your thesis</p>