<p>Mine was 2 1/2 pages and discusses that it is important for living alone in college and managing the debt that comes with financial age...in my rebuttal I said that it could be incorporated into current class curriculums, Taxes in Econ, Spending/expenses expectations in Alg etc, the longer the better lol</p>
<p>I felt uneasy about the topic. With the SAT, it always seems like personal examples do not fare as well as historical and literary examples, and I could not think of one decent and specific example from history or any book to emphazise that topic. :/</p>
<p>Ended up taking about how grandfather is excellent in finance, and he learned a lot from his father. But he did not teach his son, my father, and my father is not that great with finances. Blah…</p>
<p>my essay was soo stupid</p>
<p>how is the essay grade incorporated into the english section?</p>
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<p>I argued pro. I talked about the subprime housing crisis for a societal perspective and made up an uncle to show the long-term effects of poor personal finance management. I think my other arguments were that it’s important to know regardless of job, and that young-adults must know it when they become responsible for themselves at 18. Justt got onto the third page. I hope it was long enough!</p>
<p>I was rambling, I think. I talked about that the course shouldnt’ be required because it depends on the students’ experiences. I talked about how students could learn from either their own jobs or from their parents, and that’s why it should be optional. I didn’t give any specific examples- do you think that’ll cost me?</p>
<p>I wouldnt worry too much about using personal/historic examples on the ACT. I don’t think I used any specific examples on the Sept. ACT and I got a 10. I believe they focus more on your organization and backing up your arguments.</p>
<p>ya SAT seems to be more historical example based while ACT just wants arguments and organization/sentence structure but where you derive your examples they don’t care</p>
<p>Ah that’s good I was seriously freaking out.</p>
<p>I got a different topic–something about requiring a personal finance course in high school…Anyone else have that ?</p>
<p>@hudablossom: That’s the same essay everyone else is talking about.</p>
<p>For the essay, I liked the topic, I gave specific personal example and overall, I though it was a pretty managable topic. I think I could’ve set it up better. I had a 4-paragraphy essay: Intro, Pros, Cons, and Conclusion.</p>
<p>I didn’t finish my last argument because of time and without finishing it, basically contradicted myself! augh i just skipped and went straight to conclusion 
but i developed my other two points decently</p>
<p>I wrote one the first page and maybe 7 or 8 lines of the other page.</p>
<p>My set-up was probably vague and unclear. Kinda drifted from introduction to paragraph 1 on personal story to paragraph 2 on facts and argument to conclusion. But I covered the first two pages… Hopefully it went well…</p>
<p>I went with 5 paragraph intro-pro-pro-rebutall-conclusion 2 1/2 pages but was realllyyyyy close on time lol, near the end my writing got really sloppy cause I was rushing and was nervous I woudn’t finish</p>
<p>wow you all had really good examples
i just said i had no idea how to file taxes, that it’d benefit us. i used my older brother stealing money from my dad. at the same time i did argue for the opposite side, saying it would just add mroe homework to rigorus schedules and detrimental to health.</p>
<p>i said no because many students think financing is a boring subject to begin with, you can learn about finances through your own life experiences (like having a job and creating a budget for yourself), and it may not be related to the future career you want (which means that it will take away space that could be used to take those career tech classes you wanted).
ugh but then time ran out when i was writing my conclusion, so its only a sentence long :(</p>
<p>I wrote that the current economic crisis may have been avoided if people knew how to better manage their finances. So many people took out loans which they should have known that they could not afford, and learning some basic financial skills could have averted the resulting catastrophe. I then qualified, saying that another required course could create scheduling problems for students. Financial skills, therefore, should be integrated into the current economic class curriculum. To those who disagree with taking time away from learning supply and demand and theory of the firm, I asked what could possibly be more practical and fitting than learning financial skills in an economics class.</p>
<p>I thought that I did pretty well, except I realized afterwards that I used the word “impetus” in a totally incorrect context. Oh well. I just looked at my score, I got an 8.</p>
<p>I wrote about how democracy and liberty are dependent on the ability of people to make decisions for themselves, and that the macroeconomy cannot prosper so long as home-finance is in ruins. I also wrote about how the increasing complexity of the financial system requires knowledge that is too difficult and expensive to pick up on the fly.</p>
<p>I got a 12.</p>
<p>I wrote a decently casual essay incorporating two points, one of which related to literature and the other to history.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I still managed to get a 12 with what I thought was a pretty bad essay.</p>
<p>I brought up a factitious story about how personal financing was a knowledge passed down between generations in my family. I also discussed how it’s important to learn finances but limits students with high ambitions, I gave alternatives to requiring personal finance classes such as summer school and “test-out” options. I also referenced history and a literature. I received a 11.</p>