October SAT Writing Essay Thread

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<p>You know what sucks? My proctor gave us only 20 minutes. And what else? I was the only one who spoke up and said we have 5 minutes left, and only like 2 other girls agreed quietly. </p>

<p>He yelled out 2 mins. left while I was in the start of my 3rd example/paragraph. So I panicked and erased my 3rd example from my essay and my intro. And went straight to conclusion. Its so retarded- we started at 8:44 and he wrote it on the board, but he yelled out TIME at 9:04. ??????</p>

<p>I wrote about the Constitution and Siddhartha.</p>

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<p>I wrote about Japanese Internment & Hester Prynne from "The Scarlet Letter."</p>

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<p>i wrote about 1984 and invisible man..i only wrote like 1.5 pages tho.</p>

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<p>I wrote about Toni Morrison's Beloved (the main character rushed and killed her child) and about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (the creature rushes to get the blind cottager to like him.)</p>

<p>Expected: 10-12</p>

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<ol>
<li>3/5 compromise, missouri compromise, compromise of 1850, and slavery</li>
<li>economic crisis</li>
</ol>

<p>meh... idk if it was that good. hoping for a 10</p>

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<p>did anyone get an essay question on whether decisions made quickly are just as good as ones made slowly?
the prompt was difficult, and i definitely did bad on it. i want to see what other people thought... but it looks like the majority of people got the compromise prompt.</p>

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<p>y is urs different?</p>

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<p>i don't know. i usually get the same ones as people on cc. so i started to think i read the prompt wrong, but i checked collegeboard, and they say they have 4 prompts? i wish i had the compromise one because that prompt was hard!</p>

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<p>they may have different prompts for very different timezones since it is probably easy to share it</p>

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<p>all the prompts should be general and quite broad enough to relate to..</p>

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<p>I did pretty well on the essay.
Expecting at least an 11.</p>

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<p>If one were to not have time to finish a conclusion and ran out of time mid-way through writing about a 2nd example, would that have a significant impact on the score if the rest was very well written?</p>

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<p>i wrote an okay intro
1st example rosa parks(okay i guess)
2nd example beowulf(kinda rushed lol had 7 mins left when i started 2nd example)
conclusion was okay
2 more lines to fill in 2 pages, expecting 10~~</p>

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<p>For the decisions essay I wrote about the Economic Crisis as well, only to realize after than most likely a bunch of people wrote about that.</p>

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<p>I wrote about Fahrenheit 451. This essay is definitely not the 11 I got last time. :/</p>

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<p>I used WWII and Beowulf</p>

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<p>dbsklove, i had the same one. there are different ones throughout the country (not many, ~~~half a dozen)</p>

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<p>I used Romeo and Juliet for 3 paragraphs, didn't underline the title, and didn't end up with a conclusion. After time was called, I wanted to change the last two words, but obviously it was too late. It felt really rushed this time, while last time I felt good about it and got 8. Hopefully I get 8 again. I'm not hoping for anything better.</p>

<p>Oh, and I got the decisions prompt.</p>

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<p>the diversity is not important. what is important is the relevance. on the last SAT essay i wrote about the Kyoto treaty, orwell's 1984, Sartre, greenhouse effect and the beat generation and it only got me an 8. of course, i didn't switch so abruptly from one idea to another:P it made sense...a little</p>

<p>on yesterday's sat i wrote about a personal invented experience(smth really lame about firsthand experience with the disadvantaged, but RELEVANT in the context), again about global warming, Galileo Galilei, one Baudlaire quote and I wanted to say something really cool about comunism in Romania and the lies about economy and production stolen from Mao, but I lacked the time, of course.</p>