<p>One of my friends who is very smart and scored well on his SAT heard that you should only have two body paragraphs with two main pieces of evidence that should be backed up with a lot of detail, instead of going to a third one with less detail on each.</p>
<p>And that this usually results in a better score.</p>
<p>Has anyone tried this or heard of this before as well?</p>
<p>I was wondering about that too. I don't know the answer though. Last March I used three examples and pretty much filled the entire two pages up and I got a 9...I think I'm going to stick with two examples next time.</p>
<p>To be honest they care more about how you write than what you write. Either way could give you a perfect score, but I would reccommend using a 5 paragraph essay with three bodies of support. Make the details concise but insightful and you will get a 12. Dragging on about one specific topic with too much support is an easy way to lose points.</p>
<p>They like to see structure and well developed examples. The ideal number of body paragraphs would be 2 because with 2 paragraphs you can develop your examples more and provide more insight.</p>