<p>Because people keep saying that you have to write a lot in order for you to get a perfect score, I would like to know how much people that got 10-12 on essay wrote. (4par, 5par, 2 pages, etc.)
Some places say plan your essay out for 5 min, but if you do so your essay will be a bit shorter.</p>
<p>And also, are you allowed to use movies as examples? :P</p>
<p>on the june SAT, i wrote a page and half a line... got a 9.</p>
<p>length is not everything.. but it does help you.</p>
<p>see thats what some people say...
but everyone who got a 11 or 12 is telling me they wrote about 1 3/4 pages...</p>
<p>5 paragraphs: 1 intro, 3 supporting, 1 conclusion.....11</p>
<p>I wrote 2 full pages but got a 10. It was 4 paragraphs, if you want to call my last sentence a paragraph. Here's why:</p>
<p>My proctor wrote the end time on the board but was using her own watch instead of the clock on the wall so everyone who looked at the clock basically got jipped out of 2 minutes, which was going to be my concluding paragraph. So, it was only 1 sentence :(</p>
<p>I wrote 5 paragraphs....... 1 intro, 3 supporting, 1 conclusion: 11</p>
<p>I wrote 2 full pages.</p>
<p>Intro, 3 supporting, Conclusion. 2 full pages = 11</p>
<p>I wrote 2 pages of the suckiest essay ever and got a 9 :p</p>
<p>A page and a line......11 in Jun ;o
A page and a half......10 in Oct ;o</p>
<p>I got a twelve on the October test, and I just wrote</p>
<p>Intro, One Example Supporting, Second Example Supporting, Conclusion. </p>
<p>It ended up using all the space.</p>
<p>conclusion:
most 10-12s are LONG (at least page+1/2)</p>
<p>i wrote 1 3/4 pages...got a 9...honestly thought I did a lot better but oh well</p>
<p>In May I wrote about a page and a half - got an 8
In June I wrote two full pages - got a 10!</p>
<p>Speaks for itself, because my writing abilities did not improve.</p>
<p>May previous: I wrote only one page, no particular conclusion, short paragraphs (I never count them)--got a 10.</p>
<p>October test: I wrote a page and a half (I got an easier topic this time), again, no particular conclusion--got a 12.</p>
<p>I write very quickly and naturally and had about 10 minutes left each time. I have medium-sized writing.</p>
<p>I never brainstorm either. As ideas formulate in my head, I just write them down. Therefore, I never really write a true conclusion, though my essays don't end abruptly.</p>
<p>I think my high-ish scores can be attributed to stylistic devices, like metaphors and parallelism, which I use innately.</p>