<p>I've heard that making up material is a good way to go about doing the SAT essay - like stories that people made up a book or w/e and it didn't hurt them (12 scores). </p>
<p>Is this really true? If I blatantly made up a historical event, it would be okay?</p>
<p>Historical event? I would not recommend making one up.</p>
<p>In Literature, however... yes, sometimes, it is OK to make one up. Just make sure it supports your point strongly - and that the reader doesn't recognize you've made it up.</p>
<p>I would, however, always go with personal experience if I could not cite any REAL literary or historical examples. But that's just me.</p>
<p>checkers cannot check the facts behind the essay but if you're not a BSer than don't do it lol</p>
<p>Making up historical events would be dumb to say the least. Making up personal events, no worries.</p>
<p>dont make up things about books
my god.
haha
if you are going to make something up, make up a personal story. people will know if it is something like lit or history</p>
<p>...okay. then i guess the people who bs'ed stuff got 12s for being lucky lol. i wouldnt fabricate history, but I don't see whats wrong with making up a book.</p>
<p>no, there was a guy that wrote about jfk being on a saxon war council and got a 12 on his essay. if they fact check one, they have to fact check all.</p>
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<p>this should answer everything for you.</p>
<p>This guy basically wrote about how Obama led a revolt along with churchill in a basque prison and learned valuable lessons for him. He also goes on to write about how MLK and Lincoln teamed up and tought the world about civic virtues lol. He finally finishes it up a story about Kennedy fighting in the 6th saxon war in the country of Lilliput lol.</p>
<p>I made up my examples for dec sat and I got an 11. Its all about your writing, not factual accuracy.</p>
<p>I would think that fabricating a compelling example and tying the example to the prompt under the SAT 25 minute conditions is much harder than using real literary, cultural and historical examples. And then there’s the issue of academic integrity. If that’s not compelling then there’s also the reality that colleges get to see your essay. It’s part of the SAT score report. Are these convincing enough reasons for integrity?</p>