November 2010 SAT - Writing

<p>yeah, 4 Ds and 3 Es.
Which was real and which was experimental? I remember something about Laurence Yep’s Dragonrider.</p>

<p>Oh… i may have interpeted the prompt wrong.
Oh well, though. Most the colleges I’m applying for just look at the CR & Math scores/combined, so im not too worried about it.
Plus, I don’t think I could do much worse then last time (450).
Its odd; writing is my best subject in school and I got a 97 on my (NYS) English regents.</p>

<p>*I also had the Dragonrider and Caribbean culture passages.
I found the Caribbean one the hardest…</p>

<p>nah i found the dragonrider one to be tougher. what was the answer to the one that asked what he could have disussed more in the passage? i put san francisco chinatown or something, but idk</p>

<p>There were multiple versions, though the essay seems to be the same.</p>

<p>the question about taking a cursive glance at a resume? the question about aspen colonies?</p>

<p>I didn’t pay too much attention on this writing section since I got an 800 in October, but I do want to see if I can get a 12 essay this time since I completely filled my 2 pages.</p>

<p>Also, did anyone have an unusual amount of (D)s for the last section?</p>

<p>So the writing section with the girl and her love for board games wasn’t experimental?</p>

<p>Was it bad if I talked about how people did NOT put emphasis on themselves and helped others out? I mentioned Boo Radley, Martin Luther, and the Civil War. I just couldn’t think of anything supporting emphasis on themselves and didn’t wanna waste anymore time. I did a full two pages though, so do I have some hope?</p>

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The one about taking the board games to college? I don’t think so, as I had that and I’m fairly certain I had a math experimental.</p>

<p>i had writing experimental, i think the writing(section 2) right after the essay was exp, cuz u hardly see two section come consecutively. i got 3-4 no errors. wow.</p>

<p>I had a small mental breakdown in those last five minutes because I had so many d’s.</p>

<p>Crzygamer, I’m sure you’re fine. As long as you presented your topic in a good manner, and supported the examples you gave well. I actually wrote in favor of independence, using two examples: reclusive mathematicians and the efficiency of dictatorships.</p>

<p>Now that I think about it, stating that independence is bad might have even been better.</p>

<p>what did u guys think of the Caribbean passage??</p>

<p>CrzyGmer789X2: i did the same. I talked about George washington and martin luther king.</p>

<p>I had 4 no error !!</p>

<p>For me the last 10 minute section was nerveracking - I had weird D and E patterns, all in a row (like 4 Ds in the beginning I think and like 1 A).</p>

<p>I think I had 2-3 no errors.</p>

<p>By the way, did anyone have the book about planes one, about some inventor? One question that stumped me was if the best improvement to a sentence would be to remove “too” or leave it as is. I think I stayed with removing it.</p>

<p>As for the essay, I didn’t make the mistake of filling up just one page. I literally had to make my writing smaller to fit in, and ended up with 5 minutes to edit. Towards the end of the test I started losing concentration though. :/</p>

<p>I got one no error. It was the one about they guy going somewhere simply to get something. Also there was a question that started with that. It was something like:
That they did not hint at something which would affect man people. I said the error was at that.</p>

<p>I also had 4 no errors for the last section… :O</p>

<p>For the 10-minute section I got errors on all but one I think - the one about the children’s book author. I also got a string of D’s on the last few questions in that section, so scary.</p>

<p>I said the sentence (this is my approximation of that sentence): “that the research was entirely funded by companies whose earnings would be directly affected by the results of the research was not even hinted at by the scientists in their published article.” had the error of “that the research.”</p>

<p>For the essay, I’m not sure I took it in the right direction… I said there is too much emphasis on acting by oneself but for the group and both are self-detrimental. I used the examples of Hamlet and Victor from Frankenstein, though I have small handwriting and only filled up 1 1/2 pages before running out of time (aka finished bodies, no conclusion). ):</p>

<p>nvm 10char</p>