<p>Would you?
I tried (for practice essays) but it's not that easy!<br>
Is it that bad to make up stuff to fit your opinion on the promp?</p>
<p>Lying? I'm sure at least 10% of the people will do it on the test if they cannot think of any literary or historical examples, and then just write a fake experience. </p>
<p>Unethical? Well...Yes. I mean if it does cast doubt in your mind, then there has to be some sort of problem .....</p>
<p>BUT....Difference of having above a 700 or below a 700? definently something to ponder</p>
<p>I don't see how it is unethical at all. Your score is based on how well you write, and what you write about seems totally irrelevant.</p>
<p>The only reservation I would have is that it can be more difficult to think up what to say when you are making things up.</p>
<p>I don't think that it's unethical. The test is supposed to measure your writing ability - not how compelling your life story is, or what historical examples you can pull out of your head.</p>
<p>However, although it may not be unethical (in my opinion), it is no longer a good strategy. Since colleges will be able to see the new SAT essays, if you write something that is clearly false, adcoms probably won't be amused (if they check).</p>
<p>Maybe it's just me, but I'd think it'd be harder to make something up out of nowhere and develop it into a good essay in such a short time than to think of something that actually happened.</p>
<p>the better you lie on paper, the better writer you are </p>
<p>(fiction)</p>
<p>um, i'm pretty sure they won't CHeck the content of the essays. I mean, these people have to read How many papers?
Could we make up some historical stuff? Perhaps someone from an obscure place...?</p>
<p>You can make up a story and then say that's your personal expereince. It is OK to do so if you have nothing to write, you can even pirate an essay from somewhere else, but don't copy every word.Get your good score, and be happy.Who cares about whether your essay is factual or not?</p>
<p>I don't see any problem, but trust me, writing about a false experience is hard. It's hard to be descriptive and interesting. If you're good at it, u're probably a great writer.</p>
<p>As long as it doesn't sound too unbelievable, it's okay with me. I do it a bit, but not to the extent of "I patented an invention at the age of 2 1/2"...</p>
<p>I don't think that it's unethical. If you can't think of any truthful examples, then make up a fake (and cogent) experience or example. That's what I did, and I got a great score. Besides, who really cares? I'm sure that CB doesn't give a rat's tail. So why should you? It's not like you're cheating.</p>
<p>No, they realy don't care. I wrote about 2 hypothetical situations in my essay... and I got 800.</p>
<p>Good writers are, essentially, convincing liars. Just a thought.</p>
<p>Not at all. My anecdotal support was kind of true--but more false than true so that it related better to the prompt.</p>
<p>It is a WRITING test. If they wanted to measure how well I recall literary examples, I would have taken the AP English Lit exam. If they wanted to measure how well I recall historical references, I would take one of the many AP History exams.</p>
<p>I lied on every single example for my essay today, and I'm proud, because it's a test of writing, and nothing more.</p>
<p>yah, they encourage you to make up examples tbh. well at least kaplan did when i took the course. i made up 2 of 3 examples.</p>
<p>i made up a war. the French-Indonesian War of 1956. Because the majority wanted to leave the war but the educated elite didnt, and the elite listened to the educated majority, Indonesian Drug Traficking is now a big problem and that lead to increased drug abuse in France and a poorer work ethic</p>
<p>Nothing unethical about it at all.</p>
<p>you can't say making up a personal experience is unethical, that's too strong of a connotation. more or less, you are making up an experience because it's your last resort for proof for your essay</p>
<p>I don't think it is unethical. I completely fabricated a story about my brother to fit the prompt for the essay for SAT2 writing. I ended up getting an 11 subscore from it and 800.</p>
<p>If you are debating a +700 vs -700, over something like making up an example, than you are in a bad position. Sure, in the honest world, everyone would be honest, but in the real world, you better come up with something, or the rest of us will leave you in the dust .</p>