Is the Essay Graded More Harshly Now Than Before?

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<p>The reason I ask is that I just looked at my son's detailed scores. I was a bit surprised he had only gotten an 8 on his essay because he is a pretty good writer. I read it and found one glaring error (he left out a word in a sentence). I could find no grammatical errors and ran it by a few "writers" at the office who also agreed. I do think he could have found one more good example. As it was he had three examples.</p>

<p>So, I then pulled up my daughter's SAT scores from 2008/2009. She had horrible scores anyway, but her essay was an 8. I pulled that up, printed it out. It was atrocious. But, yet, an 8. I found so many errors on it that I could have bled red ink all over the page.</p>

<p>So, what is up with that or just not my son's lucky day? Do you know if there will be examples posted of a 12 essay for the May 2012 prompt?</p>

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<p>I just think like you.I am an international studend and i did not know what was sat when i first took and got 6.I have prepared for months,improved my essay, made templates
And got 7.I havent still figured out why.</p>

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<p>Interesting, I took the May 5th SAT and I honestly didn’t think my essay was good at all. Maybe an 8 as well but I got a 10! I was surprised! I only used 2 examples and I didn’t even get to finish. (I had like 3 words left to write). So I think they were lenient towards my essay.</p>

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<p>intro, 3 stupid paragraphs that relate to thesis, conclusion, fill both pages. easy 10</p>

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<p>I thought my essay on the May 5th test was pretty terrible, but I somehow got an 8. I think 8 is the magic number because most of my friends got 8’s and our writing skills vary quite a bit.</p>