<p>It's always good to fluff your essay with fake situations/books/diatribes about your youth. Just come up with a list of 20 generic SAT words that you can use, 2 examples that basically fit around anything (World War II is always good), and a "book" that you just made up and can get any endearing example from. </p>
<p>Yes, it's not ethically right but since when has ethics helped you craft an essay? It worked for me and tripNip so give it a shot and see how you do. </p>
<p>Feedback would be good.</p>
<p>oh and since I'm a habitual liar, you can disregard everything I just posted.</p>
<p>I wrote about slavery, Windows 95 and football kickers and got a 12</p>
<p>so I assume that the 2 people reading it were black fantasy football players.</p>
<p>Why would you go to the trouble of making up a whole story for a book that doesn't exist when you are already required to read many books for school?</p>
<p>I was planning on making something up, but my essay subject was so stupid I completely lost my lying ability.</p>
<p>There is no ethical dilemma behind this at all. They use a formulaic method to grade how well you can write an essay in 20 minutes, that's it. No one gives a **** about whether your examples are real or not.</p>
<p>Treebounders, this idea has just occured to me when I woke up today ;)
You're absolutely right, but put it like this: </p>
<p>creative liars always win.</p>
<p>well it's not like they can verify everything you say, so in a way you're not lying....</p>
<p>I wrote about "The Scarlet Letter", Rosa Parks, and a synthetic situation I devised about a friend being an outcast.</p>
<p>Got a 12.</p>
<p>There really is no formula...you should be aware of your audience. You should know what they want: they want to hear about like moral values and ethnic triumphs (pathos basically). </p>
<p>Full 2 long pages.</p>
<p>SAT vocabulary words that are utilized correctly.</p>
<p>i wrote about huck finn and a fake personal experience.</p>
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<p>You're hilarious. So if I lie to my mom and she never finds out . . . I was telling the truth. :)</p>
<p>btw-this is a good idea, which I'd considered it when I took the SAT :(. Ah well, I'm happier that I'm never taking that stupid test again.</p>
<p>well in a sense, they think you're telling the truth, and that's all you need</p>
<p>to know what your audience wants, desires....</p>
<p>I wrote about Locke's Social Contract Theory, how they are applied to our government, and Catcher in the Rye and got an 11.</p>
<p>Not a 12, but hell, it's close enough.</p>
<p>you didn't have 3 examples...3 distinct ones</p>
<p>lol glucose... that is so cliche </p>
<p>I bet having 1 fluid, maybe even winsome example will get you a better score than 3 distinct examples. I might even try that on my next essay</p>
<p>try it...your prerogative...</p>
<p>they want to test that you can break out multiple ideas, which you probably will have to in college</p>
<p>you can't linger</p>
<p>"it's so cliche" Well ya...it's cliche, but it's what they want</p>
<p>you have to develop a mature writing style. As much as you'd like a lot of examples, fluidity and substance is > quantity. Depends on how well you expound on that one example though. If you can stretch a nice yarn that incorporates several tangents of the same idea then you're set.</p>
<p>maybe...but I wrote 3 examples and got a 12...my examples, honestly, were not very complicated in relation to yours....</p>
<p>I know something with only 1 example who got an 8 (isn't great, but I would expect less for only one example) and another person who used 2 examples and got an 11. So quality is sometimes better than quantity.</p>
<p>let me just say this...it's more frequent for a 12 to have 3 examples</p>
<p>not ALWAYS the case...but it's pretty close in correlation</p>