<p>Giving one example for the essay is fine; in the College Board's Official Guide to the NEW SAT, a sample essay that received a perfect score only had one example (it was very in-depth though..). I'm not very sure about extending the meaning of the prompt though...that's probably going to kill you...(sorry I wasn't much help).</p>
<p>yea i think i put "toward" for that question, does anyone remember the "digging" question?</p>
<p>can u still get an 12 even if essay is incomplete? in my essay i had a thesis statement about courage. and 2 paragraphs supporting it what do u think id get?</p>
<p>Yeah, it was something like, "While such-and-such was digging a such-and-such, the power blew..." I don't know. Something concise like that. I think "toward" was no error.</p>
<p>you put a question before something... not toward (i think)</p>
<p>can u still get an 12 even if essay is incomplete? in my essay i had a thesis statement about courage. and 2 paragraphs supporting it what do u think id get?</p>
<p>does anyone know what happens when you file a complaint about your testing center? our proctor kept time on her cellphone and didnt tell us and so the whole room thought we had 3 extra minutes when she called time. it screwed everyone over so my friend and i filed a complaint and they said they'd get back to us... do you think they'll do anything?</p>
<p>iam..hope it wont affect u negatively..because the only thing they can do is cancel your scores and maybe get ur money back..but if u needed those scores for college this year..thatll hurt......my proctor was the only beech..i cant get into it..but shes sucked!!!!!</p>
<p>Oh man, I think I did pretty well on the MC... but my essay sucked. I wrote about how this tiny, shy girl on my basketball team, who was always benched, had the courage to take a free-throw and tied the game up for us during play-offs. I'm really ****ed because last time I took the writing, I got a 10 on the essay and a lot of MC wrong, now I think I did the exact opposite.</p>
<p>What did you guys put for the question in the improving paragraphs section about improving a sentence that said something to the effect of "Community stories are told also." One choice was "in contrast". Another was "in particular." For the other paragraph story, I remember there was a sentence you had to improve involving the grandmother and aunt yelling. I believe it was a tense problem... like the aunt would never say anything to the granddma. I don't know. It was weird. I was rushing through the last 20 questions because I had realized I was working too slow.</p>
<p>Also, for the "digging" question, I thought it was tough, because I didn't like the answer choices. There abviously was a modifying problem in that sentence. I think I ended up going with the answer choice that started with "All the power went out" because I thought it was the only choice that didn't have a modifier problem. I don't know though...</p>
<p>I ended up getting like 7 e's. PR says 5-7 e's on the sentence error questions is the norm. I had 8 e's originally, then changed one cause I thought I had too many e's.</p>
<p>Oh, I also remember a question about the economy and prices. I picked the answer choice that maintained parallelism. It was like "The better the economy, the slower (or faster) something dropped." I'm not sure. I didn't like the answer choices either though because I thought ambiguity was a large problem here.</p>
<p>I also remember a sentence error question that I marked because I thought it was ambiguous. Can this be verified. I wasn't sure, because the practice tests I've taken really didn't have ambiguity problems.</p>
<p>All in all, I think I did very well. Pretty sure I got a 12 on the essay. ( used Beowulf, The Pearl, The Red Badge of Courage, Rosa Parks, Abe Lincoln, and soldiers in Iraq). Just wondering how many I could get wrong o nthe MC and still have an 800. I believe 7 (7 all wrong, not left blank). Not sure though... I just wished I would have practiced taking the essay section and MC section together.. because doing that for the first time at the test sort slowed me down.</p>
<p>I put "in particular" - I had wanted to put "however"</p>
<p>I think "desirious" is wrong</p>
<p>I think that there is nothing wrong with "toward" coz 'toward' refers to a specific thing/direction, and 'towards' is general</p>
<p>I got 2 or a few Es in the last part of the MC section</p>
<p>I didn't even finish my essay yet :( Not enough time to write the conclusion paragraph, others was left with tons of errors :((.</p>
<p>My examples are:
1. The main character in "The Beautiful Life" (the Oscar-winning movie). Would it hurt to cite an example from a movie? I think one from a classic novel would be better, but I didn't have chance to read much.
2. A mother in Tsunami who sacrify one of her children to save others.</p>
<p>What will I get? A 4/12 or 3/12? :(( I omitted 2 MC due to the lack of time. Guess my final score would be as bad as hell.</p>
<p>I put "then" for the community one. Didn't they say that the wall hasn't been updated since 1950s?
For the economy one I put "the better the economy, the slower the fall"
I put "toward" is wrong--not sure though</p>
<p>I put "toward" as wrong, too. It just didn't sound right.</p>
<p>incognito, I used the Atticus quotation as well, but I wrote about terminally ill children.</p>
<p>Ugh, I am terribly unconfident about my writing skills. When I took the test in October, I thought my essay was great - but I ended up with a 7 (overall score 660). I usually end up with about 10 incorrect MC's, too... darn.</p>
<p>Our proctor didn't even know what she was doing. We started half an hour late because she couldn't find what she was looking for. It turned out that she thought we were doing the ELPT, so she was looking for the cassettes! Then we pointed out that we were doing the WRITING exam. </p>
<p>Proctor: "...Reading?"</p>
<p>Me: "No, Writing."</p>
<p>Proctor: "Do you have to write something?"</p>
<p>Me: "Well, that's what the name implies. We've got to write an essay in the first twenty minutes."</p>
<p>So we started the exam and she stopped us after 21 minutes and collected the essay sheets in. 5 minutes later she walks up to us and says, "Take your essay back, you're allowed to go through it."</p>
<p>Seeing as how I was trying to race through the MCs, I snapped, "No, no, I don't want it!!!!"</p>
<p>10 minutes later, someone brought a tray of juice and water. "Would anyone like some refreshments?" she asked us.</p>
<p>Nobody replied.</p>
<p>nkay - that's dramatic!</p>
<p>BTW - How can she take the essay sheet ?</p>
<p>Shouldn't the sheet be taken in after the 20 mins?</p>
<p>You can detach the sheet from the rest of the answer booklet.</p>
<p>Actually, I have no clue.</p>
<p>No one detached the essay sheet from the answer folder. Nope, they didn't even ask us to stop writing after 20 mins.</p>
<p>On the towards thing....<a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ebrians/errors/toward.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/toward.html</a>
It says they're interchangeable, but toward is more common in the US and towards in the UK.</p>
<p>Every site/book I search says toward is interchangeable but is usually more preferred. I think I put E for that, because in following plurality rules for other verbs, you would says "questions put toward" (like they want (you wouldn't say they wants), as opposed to she wants). But that's weird, seeing as there is no definite rule...</p>
<p>What did any of you put for the "warm bath" (or something along those lines) question? I'm pretty sure I chose something like "I imagined myself in a warm bath instead of on the cold, concrete," instead of "That's when I imagined myself..."</p>
<p>yea, your answer sounds right. it was the only complete sentence with correct verb tenses.</p>