November 2010 SAT - Writing

<p>I hope -10 will be 800, haha.
Seriously, this writing section was insanely hard. Not even close to the ones in BB or the October one.</p>

<p>I wrote about Malcolm X and then totally fabricated a story about my grandfathers life. Not sure I did too well, hah.</p>

<p>I have no idea what you guys are talking about in terms of the essay :frowning:
My topic was, “Is imagination less valuable than facts and objectivity?” Did anyone else get that?</p>

<p>i did too, i didn’t know what to do, but i didn’t change it.</p>

<p>East and West have different essay prompts.</p>

<p>I got a BAMF writing prompt. I came in without knowing what to write or being prepared. It was about imagination vs. knowledge.</p>

<p>I used Albert Einstein, John Nash Jr., the Wright Brothers, UAV’s, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.</p>

<p>For the one w/ people doing things by and for themselves essay topic, I used abraham maslow, the psychologist, and Erikson’s 12 developmental stages and how individual acheivement is the motivating force of a positive schema or somethign stupid like that. I got an 11 last time using a spiderman example lol</p>

<p>I got the one about imagination/creativity. I argued no using The Beatles as an example and how even accepted scientific theories and laws emerged due to imagination (Einstein/Galileo).</p>

<p>I am pretty sure there were four no errors for the 35 min writing section. I paid attention to every single ****ing word in that section. This was the section with the college girl paragraph improving thing., in case any one is curious.</p>

<p>Did anyone get some question on one of the sentence correction sections that went something like:</p>

<p>Companies know that allowing some employees to work from home increases production, but employers something something about how they don’t trust that the employees will work?..</p>

<p>Was it C or no error? C was something like the employees are <strong>some kind of adjective</strong> <strong>some verb +ing</strong></p>

<p>There were definitely not 4 no errors. I think the highest would be two because I was vacillating over a question with That but I ended up marking it as an error. So I only had one no error. And I when I talk about no errors I am referring to the errors in the identifying error section.</p>

<p>@languidness: I know I definitely found an error, though I don’t remember which answer I put. C does sound about right to me though.</p>

<p>^I can assure you there were.
One was the journey thing. Another was the “hint at” thing. And there were two back-to-back no errors. If you disagree, we shall see on the 25th.</p>

<p>Okay but journey and hint at do not equal 4 no errors. And I think that the hint at question might be an error but I am not sure.</p>

<p>I put just 1 no error LOL. It was the near the front. The one after that looked like a no error, but on closer inspection, you actually see its a subject - verb disagreement.</p>

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<p>I only got 1 NE for the identifying errors in the first part (Burton, the most eccentric person I know, journeyed 600 miles simply to sample Chicago pizza), but I think that 4 As in the last section (the 14 question, 10 minute one.)</p>

<p>Something about journeyed struck me as wrong. So I got that one wrong.</p>

<p>There was one that I did get NE on, though.</p>

<p>do anyof u have the answer ?</p>

<p>what did you guys write your essay on?</p>