Official 12/4 SAT II Writing Thread

<p>Anyone else feeling too anxious about the SAT II Writing exam to sleep?</p>

<p>Just finished it... Not too bad.</p>

<p>ugh...the last five questions were death.</p>

<p>meh. my essay was soo rushed... but I guess the multiple choice was ok.</p>

<p>The passages were easier than the ones i've done in barron's, the last section was hard</p>

<p>Hey, aren't the proctors supposed to announce when 5 minutes are left?</p>

<p>I had to cancel my tests ... I was in the middle of my essay, taking my time (totally would have finished if I had another 5 minutes).</p>

<p>I thought that it wasn't that bad, except for the last section. That was a bit rough.</p>

<p>Can someone please restate the prompt to the best of your memory? I completely forgot it; I don't know what's wrong with me... It had something to do with an individual and a community...</p>

<p>The needs of an individual should always come after the needs of the group, community, or nation.</p>

<p>not verbatim, but fairly close I think.</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>sonar- my proctor only announced the time every 20 minutes.. I don't know if that means anything</p>

<p>I think I did pretty well. Had a great essay. Multiple Choice. . . I think I did o.k., but you never know with those things until you get the results. Hopefully i broke 750 like I wanted.</p>

<p>oh I see how it is... my thread aint good enuf eh? lol, finnnneeee</p>

<p>i had a lot of "no errors". :(</p>

<p>Lol, I'll just combine these two cuz this one's "official"</p>

<h2>the_wanderer </h2>

<p>Wow... the essay was nice...
the multiple choice section was mean.
I had like a few minutes do do like 20 questions... which really really really really really stunk.</p>

<h1>Anyone have any ideas on the questions or the scale... or something about the test? </h1>

<h2>kinetic </h2>

<h1>I agree. essay - nice; mc - mean, especially those questions where you had to choose the wrong part of the sentence </h1>

<h2>the_wanderer</h2>

<p>yeah... dang... how 'bout 'em mc's.
It took so long to find the errors for some reason.</p>

<h1>HOw do you think you did... I think maybe 2 missed and 15 wrong or something lol. </h1>

<h2>the_wanderer </h2>

<p>for the essay I wrote something along the lines of "rulers should not look after their own selfish desires but the good of their subjects (the good of the people)"...</p>

<h1>I had like one or two quotes. 2 supporting paragraphs contrasting Julius Caesar with Macbeth. Wit Caesar being the good ruler cuz he still went to the meeting where the assassins were hiding not heeding the warnings cuz it was a priority to him (the good of the people), and I managed to squeeze the famous line "cowards die many times...something something... the valiant...something something". It was still pretty much in context tho... so yeah... I think I got 160-200 on the essay. </h1>

<h2>Nakane </h2>

<p>Is it okay if I wrote about dictators (Kim Jung-Il of North Korea) and Saddam Hussein and how their selfish needs are of less significance than those of the poor people in their countries?</p>

<p>Yeah... yours is kinda like mine
rulers against subjects.
niceeeeee if I may say so myself.</p>

<p>I said that the individual needs are more important because they are what makes us huma (eg. wanting someone) and used Brave New World.</p>

<p>But yours is better.</p>

<p>I used a Book and Nazi Germany</p>

<h2>nukane</h2>

<p>*Newspapers purport ____________ but no newspaper achieves it.
*Louis Armstrong was neither the inventor of jazz nor its first soloist blah blah.
*Novelist Margarnt O. succeeded to provide for her own and her brother's children.. blah blah. </p>

<p>Sentence improvement..
*"Morning was not my favorite time" or something
*For most Americans this was the best.. blah blah I put "time of the day"
*Add "Because" in the beginning of the sentence that talks about cooling of hot rocks
*something about "thinking about the day that just ended" - leave as it is?</p>

<p>euh... was the Louis Armstrong one where you circled the word that was supppose to be "neither"... lol I forgot...
well... hey it's over... so not really much I can do about it... Though it would be a comfort if peeps got the same as me. Well... IF.
btw, any1 know the fastest time the scores can get here? (early scoring)</p>

<p>well... it's because I gotta go to vaca. on the 18th... and yeah... would be nice to know what SAT books I'll be bringing along with me lol. Saddddd....</p>