<p>I've noticed that high scoring essays (11's and 12's) generally focus their examples on one topic. Like they don't have one personal example, one from history, and one from literature like most books and sites reccomend. </p>
<p>For example, the essays that scored 12's in the Blue Book, one of them talks about the great depression for the whole essay and the other one talks only about one personal experience, but it seems that all of them have a highly developed persepctive on that one topic. So is it better to write extensively on one subject/topic for the essay to score high?</p>
<p>From what I've seen, I think the main thing is to have details for your examples. So fewer in depth examples are better than a lot of underdeveloped ones. I used two examples that were kind of related (both Supreme Court cases).</p>
<p>Well. Shouldn't all your examples support one another, ANYWAYS? </p>
<p>As in, all your examples should be related anyways, because you're using them all to prove one point: the essay question being given. So even if you're using completely unrelated examples, whether it be personal or from a novel/current event, history - it should all relate back to your thesis.</p>
<p>I just meant that mine were more related than they needed to be- almost like one example. Instead of just dealing with instances where change is good, they were both SC cases where the court changed its position over time.</p>
<p>Yeah, my 11 essay talked about world war I and conveniently enough segued (possible misuse of word but I'm lazy to go back and correct it lol) into the rise of fascism....but my mention of Hitler scared one reader into giving me a 5... lol jk</p>