<p>I got a 7 and the comment didn't really explain why I received a low score.</p>
<p>Comments on your essay: Your essay maintained focus on the specific issue in the prompt.</p>
<p>I'm fairly decent at the mechanical side, so I'm sure it's not that.</p>
<p>:</p>
<p>silly iowa people</p>
<p>You could always rescore it.</p>
<p>"silly iowa people"</p>
<p>I take offense.</p>
<p>Anyway, mine was the same: "maintained focus" and "used logic" (or something)... and I got an 8. Pretty sucky explanations, considering they're complimenting my obviously terrible essay. I thought I did well as well.</p>
<p>Rescoring would (I think) be a waste of money... the essay doesn't even matter.</p>
<p>Gee,</p>
<p>Take it as a lesson to improve. </p>
<p>PM me something you've written and I'll give you feedback.</p>
<p>I got an 11 on my first one and all it said was:</p>
<p>Your essay covered all counter arguments effectively.</p>
<p>I didn't even remember saying anything about the counter arguments :D! Oh well.</p>
<p>
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silly iowa people
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The essay scorers are all over the country.</p>
<p>Two of them scored your essay. One gave you a 3, the other a 4.</p>
<p>whomever* maybe you deserved a seven</p>
<p>Actually, whoever is correct: <a href="http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp</a></p>
<p>lol i like this thread</p>
<p>i also like "silly iowa people"
stop sippin on the haterade, ferguson</p>
<p>i hate how inconsistent the grading is. i mean getting say a 3 and a 4 is a big difference if you think about it, same as the difference between a 4 and a 5. even worse is what happens when there's something such as a 3 and a 5 in which some third reader "reads" it, yet he/she merely gets the average of those two numbers and doubles it always.</p>
<p>The third reader can assign any score.</p>