<p>Can anyone tell me what is the essay question for the SAT on Jan 28?</p>
<p>"Are important discoveries made by focusing on one subject?" somethin like that</p>
<p>January SAT Essay Prompts
If you took the January SAT Reasoning Test, you had one of the essay prompts below:</p>
<p>Prompt 1
Every important discovery results from patience, perseverance, and concentrationsometimes continuing for months or yearson one specific subject. A person who wants to discover a new truth must remain absorbed by that one subject, must pay no attention to any thought that is unrelated to the problem.</p>
<p>Adapted from Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a young Investigator</p>
<p>Assignment: Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. </p>
<p>Prompt 2
A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always "lounging around, arguing about problems instead of doing experiments." He concluded that "There is more than one way of doing good science." It was Watson's form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve "the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA." It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.</p>
<p>Adapted from John C. Polanyi, "Understanding Discovery"</p>
<p>Assignment: Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. </p>
<p>Prompt 3
An actor, when his cue came, was unable to move onto the stage. He said, "I can't get in, the chair is in the way." And the producer said, "Use the difficulty. If it's a drama, pick the chair up and smash it. If it's a comedy fall over it." From this experience the actor concluded that in any situation in life that is negative, there is something positive you can do with it.</p>
<p>Adapted from Lawrence Eisenberg, "Caine Scrutiny"</p>
<p>Assignment: Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turned into something good? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. </p>
<p>Prompt 4
Not yet available.</p>
<p>every single person I've talked to had the discovery prompt :-/ where are all of those other ones from?</p>
<p>that is from the collegeboard website.</p>
<p>How come there are so many prompts on the SAT I essay section? Is that mean we can pick any one of those to answer? I am confused.</p>
<p>I had another one, something like is it necessary to make mistakes even if they affect others in a bad way</p>
<p>Not everyone gets the same prompt. I personally think it's by location, though I can't confirm it. I remember from the March SAT that the East Coast and the West Coast had two different prompts at least.</p>
<p>I had the mistake thingy too... I'm in Canada...</p>
<p>I also got the mistake one; I'm in South Korea</p>
<p>I don't understand why people in South Korea or Canada also take the SAT I. I thought SAT is only for students live in US to take.</p>
<p>well, cuz some ppl here want to go to school in US, and actually some of them have really good scores like 2300+.(I'm not one of them, though) That's why.</p>
<p>yep that is true i think those must be amazing i mean we all take a college entrance exam in a foreign language! It's kinda unfair comparing us to the Americans in terms of SAT (it's true though that it's us who want to go to America) anyways I think I would do hundred times better in the CR or writing section if it was in my native tongue....math is a piece of cake though I think the other systems are much better in math than the American one so almost every foreign student does well on the math section</p>
<p>i had Prompt 4</p>
<p>I believe in the case of foreign students, they would pay more attention to TOEFL scores rather than their verbal.</p>
<p>what is prompt four primeminister?</p>