<p>I'm taking my first SAT on November 5th and I have questions about the essay section. I heard you can make up examples that support the prompt as long as it can convince the graders and not too far-fetched. I've also read in these forums that some people here made up their examples and scored a 10+ on their essays. My question is how did you go about making up the information? For example, making up a title, author and what happens in the story. Please tell me your tips how you came up with an author's name, title and content that is believable.</p>
<p>Don’t make up a book, title, and author. Choose a not very well-known book/author, and then make up an event that is somewhat related to the story.</p>
<p>I did it on my last essay, and got an 8. (Not very good I know, but it’s okay, considering that the other example was pure crap, and the “genuine” example was made-up).</p>
<p>I got 10’s on both of my essays.
I made up 2 personal experiences on one of them and on my 2nd time, I made up a random artist’s name as well as this made up artists’ works.
You can make up anything as long as it supports what you’re trying to say.
The SAT cannot punish you for made up examples because it is a standardized test. If they fact check one, they have to fact check all.
Look at it from the ETS’s perspective. They just can’t go around random fact checking peolpe.</p>
<p>The Leaves of Time by Rita Fletcher</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>I saw this on another thread and thought this was hilarious.</p>
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My strategy when none of my examples work very well:</p>
<p>I make up a French author (or physicist or human rights advocate or whatever) and customize his life to fit the prompt. It works well, because the graders don’t have time to check whether the example are legitimate. In fact, one can be so impudent as to make up direct quotes by or about him. To make it convincing, I make sure his name has an accent in it. </p>
<p>Fr</p>
<p>There’s no need to make up examples for the SAT essay. The topics are so general and the potential to interpret the main thesis so extensive that you can even use today’s newspaper to find real world examples for just about anything that’s asked.</p>
<p>Then there’s the matter of integrity.</p>
<p>And finally, why take a chance that the college will read your essay. See:</p>
<p>[Online</a> Essay Viewing for Admissions Officers](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/online-essay-viewing]Online”>SAT Scores – SAT Suite | College Board)</p>
<p>@JeffreyJung – I lol’d !</p>
<p>LOL Odyssyus’s example!</p>
<p>How specific should I be with the example?</p>
<p>Lol I made up an example from a book of Nathaniel Hawthorne… Bad choice.</p>
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<p>If you’re making up an example, why not be detailed as you possibly can?
Make up some dates and detailed account of an event. It really does enhance your essay to look “better”. Veracity is not being assessed to the slightest degree. Those little details will make your essay look infinitely better.</p>
<p>Read this to see how accuracy does not matter:
<a href=“http://www.appelrouthtutoring.com/blog/2009/06/01/in-praise-of-folly-writing-the-sat-essay/[/url]”>http://www.appelrouthtutoring.com/blog/2009/06/01/in-praise-of-folly-writing-the-sat-essay/</a></p>
<p>LMAO "Fr</p>
<p>Those essays he produced were hilarious! I hope I can think of something like that during the test.</p>
<p>I find it quite encouraging that outside knowledge is not required for the essay portion of the test.</p>
<p>Writing skill > raw knowledge</p>
<p>Got a 10 on my essay (80 MC), made up a story about a national (vancouver) speed skater “Samuel Redford” and a Horatio Dvorak novel with a character named “Winter Benterley.”</p>
<p>This is just getting more and mor hilarious</p>