<p>am i the only person who got this prompt?</p>
<p>do people today care too much about winning?</p>
<p>im in california, so maybe sat splits the essay topics up regionally.</p>
<p>my supports were:
race riots caused by competition over jobs
desire to win vietnam war, leading to unnecessary deaths
personal experience</p>
<p>and i filled both pages. how do you think i did? 10-12 possibly?</p>
<p>I got the prompt about winning too! I'm surprised that no one else mentioned it, but you are right, it might be a regional thing. I used a lot of personal examples cause I'm a competitive swimmer. I just wish that I had more historical examples. I didn't do well in that respect but I liked the rest of it. And no matter what I get I'm practically guaranteed to beat my essay score from last time. It was horrid!</p>
<p>I got the technology question. My overall thesis was that all these tools prevent humans from living as nature intended. My supports:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The futuristic society in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (only book that came to mind at the time) and how the panoramic TV screens and gadgets distract Montag's wife (Millie?) from loving her husband and being a feeling human, how all those tools end up living her life for her, etc</p></li>
<li><p>Unhealthy effects of people not commuting, health issues, obesity</p></li>
<li><p>Decreased standards in education and brain enrichment, with calculators and auto spell-check doing all the thinking for students nowadays</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I filled up nearly all the two pages, I had about 2 or 3 lines left over. But I made sure my handwriting was legible and used proper sentence structure and varied vocabulary....Based on that, and also my supports, what would you give me if you were SAT readers?</p>
<p>Thanks all, and everyone else had really good references too, some I would have never thought of (Amish) but brilliant!</p>
<p>G. A. (hopefully my SAT score won't reflect my username, haha)</p>
<p>^ That's a pretty solid essay. 9~10 (at least). Even if you used like not so impressive vocab, and a tid bit of varying sentence structure (which I think you did)... you could have an 11 your way. Great thesis, btw.
I was thinking about Fahrenheit 451 too... but I chose to right about Feed instead.</p>
<p>Good job! & Good luck!</p>
<p>Feed - thanks! btw, you wrote your essay about yourself? Cool!</p>
<p>It was my first SAT...and I was hoping that the essay part would help out my writing score because I'm more comfortable with that than finding errors and stuff (I think they write badly-written, but technically correct sentences on purpose!!) and I have a pretty good feeling about this. Can't wait for May 22!</p>
<p>Feed as in Feed by M.T.Anderson (but I think you knew what I meant... :p)</p>
<p>Well, good luck.
I know what you mean by the writing section... but I really think the MCQs are so much easier than the essay. (I usually get all of them right but score an 8 on my essay which brings me down to a 730... which sucks major marshmallows).</p>
<p>I can't wait either.
I really want to know my scores.</p>
<p>No, I don't know that book. Is it a school-curriculum book or more like a pleasure reading? Fahrenheit was from last year...one of the few books I read for school that were actually enjoyable, which is probably why I remembered it...</p>
<p>The MC throws me off all the time because they have such weird sentence structure sometimes, so even if they're technically correct, I want to say that they're wrong. I think I got a -2 on the PSAT writing, and that was because I marked a sentence wrong for being in the passive voice...and then later discovered that it was actually No Error!!! Argghh!</p>
<p>Like I said before though, this was my first SAT, so any guess I make for myself is probably not accurate. Do you know if collegeboard posts scores exactly at midnight May 22 or if I have to wait till I get home from school or something?</p>
<p>^ They put them on 8 AM Eastern Time THAT day... I know, because I didn't sleep the night for March scores... </p>
<p>Lol.</p>
<p>8:00 EST.....May 22...Thursday...YES! That's my study hall! Which means I can go use the computer hooray! </p>
<p>Although, if I did really bad, it might not be a good thing to get hit right in the morning =(</p>
<p>I would've done the same thing if you hadn't told me...I can imagine myself sitting, red-eyed, constantly hitting 'refresh' every 10 seconds lol</p>
<p>F5... yes, that was me. In fact, I even had my dad's laptop in my lap to see if they put it there first... (which is a really stupid notion ... but at that time, I didn't care...)</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Well, don't be too excited... (prepare your mind for the worst during these 2 weeks b/c it sucks if the score is much lower than you wanted it to be AND you've been waiting the whole morning/night for it).</p>
<p>Eeeek, that's true =(
I think I'm going to stop reading the discussions because I already have like 3 wrong in the math and 4 in CR.
Wow, I didn't know F5 was refresh. The things you learn while waiting for SAT scores.... =)</p>
<p>wow Feed..i've never not slept for a whole 24 hours before =/</p>
<p>haha :p</p>
<p>um, i'd be in Gym at 8:00. it's a thursday rite? darn, maybe i can check in bio..</p>