<p>Has anyone else tried the live essay grader promo on Collegeboard.com? It's available through the 12th, and if you submit an essay according to their prompt, it's supposed to be graded as the new SAT would.</p>
<p>You mean the Princeton Review, rather. </p>
<p>And no, I haven't. They might grade pretty harshly in order to cause people to panic and sign up for their prep course.</p>
<p>Sorry, I just noticed that. I think I did alright, 10/12, and I was wondering if that was the norm.</p>
<p>Do you have to pay for this or is it free?</p>
<p>For this limited time, it will be free. </p>
<p>They've had this offer before, though. </p>
<p>Probably will continue to have the offer intermittedly throughout the future.</p>
<p>@liberalistic, it's actually two graders, each giving it a score from 1-6 (at least that's what i was told) then they add up the scores from 2 to 12. a 10 is a solid essay so you should worry at all. just wondering, is the new system computerized or do they have actual people grading at the live essay grader?</p>
<p>I think it's not only practice for us, but for graders as well. The comments I got back were obviously from a person. I got an 8/12, but that's because I didn't use enough concrete examples, too much speculating, or something like that. It was helpful, I guess.</p>
<p>julius, why did you think the comments were obviously from a person?</p>
<p>I took the PR New SAT course over the summer and we got all our diag essays graded - even our course instructor told us that they logged on, pressed which "comments" they wanted attached, and then gave one score (which was doubled).</p>
<p>Ohh, good point. Probably not, then. They were just so relevant with what I wrote, that didn't really occur to me.</p>
<p>it's such crap... no one in my school got higher than a 630 on verbal... and these are the kids that rank in the top 5%... it's a ploy to trick us to go...</p>
<p>that's what i'm thinking, collegeboard is diabolical!!! i really dislike how they have such a huge monopoly on testing... <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>It can't be any other way (re: Collegeboard's monopoly). If there wasn't, there'd be no standardized testing.</p>