<p>have any of you guys taken the kaplan practice for the new SATs ?!</p>
<p>OH MAN THAT THING IS BRUTAL I TOOK IT YDAY LOL 4 HOURS OF TESTING MY GOSH MY BRAIN WAS GONNA EXPLODE !! jeez what was the school district thinking wen they came up with that ! 25 minutes essays ?! insane! i bet i did really poorly.. essays is my weakness out of everything :/</p>
<p>Seriously though...it's not that bad. It's cake compared to the 4 hr. AP test, in which most of that is essay writing. And, um, I find the essay to be the best part of the new SAT.</p>
<p>oh god!!!! I KNOOOOOOWWWWW!!! I mean who could possibly write for twenty five whole minutes.</p>
<p>What are you retarded, give me a ****ing break, I know 4th graders that can write about something for more than 25 mins.</p>
<p>dutchie shut up if ur gonna be rude to everyone just dont say anything</p>
<p>its not that bad - its basically having the writing sat 2 on ur sat so...u would have had to take the writing sat 2 anyways...trust me u will be fine</p>
<p>lol I didnt find it all that bad I just obviously need some prepping and need to cover some topics.</p>
<p>I think he meant 25 minutes was a short period of time, not the other way around. And Dutchie05, you need to mind your manners :)</p>
<p>lol yes i did mean 25 minutes is a short period of time to write an essay ! jeez :X and im not a guy ! lol i need tons of prepping for SAT's then, 25 minutes is too little of time i cant gather thoughts quick enough to write a good essay, i can barely write an essay in an hour :/</p>
<p>I think the essay is ridiculous. They're trying to make it less "discriminatory" or whatever, but how is it less unfair when you've got a kid on the south side of Chicago writing an essay to be graded by a teacher in Conneticuit. Or the other way around. Plus, don't they have a hard enough time finding graders for the AP tests? Who is going to want to volunteer to do that?</p>
<p>The essays on the APs are different, because the point is to show you know the information, not how "well" you write. I mean, you can say all this stuff about the current SAT II Writing, but less people take that test and it's not as important of a score as the SAT. I'd still rather take the SAT and the separate Writing test.</p>
<p>yea i would rather take the writing out of the new SAT and take it separately too :X if only i was a year older i wouldnt have to take the new SAT bummer</p>
<p>haha they call it the “new SAT”</p>