<p>Topic : Can common sense be trusted and accepted or should it be questioned?</p>
<p>Some people may think common sense is always right; however, others may think widely held vies is not always correct and sometimes it turns out to be wrong. I agree with the statement that prevalent beliefs that are thought to be correct are not credible as seen in the history and literature.</p>
<p>First, although popularized beliefs seem to correct, they may turn out to be wrong. At the medival age, many people and church believed that the earth is the center of the solar system and other planets are orbiting around the earth, However, unlike other people, Corpenicus did not regarded this common sense as truth and questioned to this Geocentric model. Finally he proved that this prevailing theory is wrong and discovered the new theory called Heliocentric theory which bolsters the belief that the sun is the center of the universe and other planets are orbiting around the sun. If Corpenicus followed the ubiquitous belief, then there would be no development and revolution in science. However Corpenicus refuted widely held vies and that led scientific revolution which reaps many benefits. In this way, we could find out that common sense is not always right and should be questioned.</p>
<p>Second, as seen in literature, common sense is not credible. At the novel Hemlet by Shakespeare, many people believed that the king was dead due to suicide. However, Hamlet never trusted this prevailing belief and thought that his father was murdered by his uncle Claudius. After Hamlet saw his father at his dream, he was more convinced that his father was assainated. Finally Hamlet found the veiled truth after refuting with uncle Claudius and proved that this widely held vies is not true. If Hamlet believed as what others thought, them he would never found his father's uncovered truth. However, Hamlet didn't followed what others thought and eventually he covered the truth. </p>
<p>In brief, the common sense deemed as truth by many people, sometimes ultimately prove to be wrong. Therefore, as seen in the cases of history and literature, we should take deep consideration before believing the prevalent views.</p>
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<p>I live my whole 18 years in Korea, so I'm not used to write an essay
in English!!ㅠㅠI have a test at October and I really have to get a good score
on my SAT. So please score my essay and tell me if there's any mistakes
I have to fix!!!PLEASE!!!!!!LOL</p>
<p>^^ 2 examples are okay.
In fact, most people here write 2 examples :/</p>
<p>You have the right essay structure and solid examples.</p>
<p>Because I never read Hamlet, I’m confused by your second example.
&& it’s kinda unclear.
Hamlet believes the uncle killed his father
finally he found the truth and the rivalry (vies) isn’t true (?)</p>
<p>you mentioned assassination, then there’s rivalry…
You should develop that example more with concise details.</p>
<p>If Hamlet believed as what others thought, them he would never found his father’s uncovered truth. However, Hamlet didn’t followed what others thought and eventually he covered the truth. </p>
<p>^^ These two sentences are exactly the same. Try to avoid repetition</p>
<p>&& if you ever have time,
try to practice writing longer intros/conclusions
think of it as first impressions
the better intro you have, the better the essay reader would feel before actually reading the body of the essay ^.^</p>
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<p>The typos make this literally incomprehensible to me. I understand you are not a native English speaker, but you probably should work on your spelling and grammar at the very least. I don’t know about SAT graders, but I would give this a 0 just because I can’t understand it at all. Sorry.</p>
<p>Bob, in what universe would this essay deserve a zero? This essay is clearly on-topic, addresses the prompt and is 100% legible, ruling out the possibility of a zero. The fact that others can understand this and you can’t make me question your competence in reading comprehension.</p>
<p>What do you mean by typos? “Taht” is a typo; “seem to correct” is a grammatical error; “Corpenicus” is a mispelling. Just because you got an assumed 2400 on a practice test doesn’t mean you get to be an ******* and flame other people. I’m not one to judge, but you’d better hope you get a 2400 on your SAT.</p>
<p>Regarding the essay: You seem to misunderstand the meaning of common sense, but graders won’t mind that too much (I didn’t). I liked your examples, but they were a little bit hard to follow. For instance, you mentioned in your first body paragraph that the Earth being the center of the universe was a belief, but later you write that it’s common sense. Although your English isn’t on par with native speakers, it’s important to know that the two aren’t the same. Your second paragraph is coherent, but what you’re writing about is intuition, and not common sense. Also, your conclusion is very short, probably because you ran out of time.</p>
<p>Think of a boy throwing a ball out of the window. Common sense dictates that the ball will move in a parabola, so you would use common sense instead of mathematics and physics. When we see somehow dead with a wound in his back, common sense tells us that he died of a back injury, but doesn’t cause us to suspect certain people. The same thing applies for your 1st body paragraph. However, this shouldn’t be a problem because your essay technically isn’t off topic as long you address common sense in your introduction. However, with slightly irrelevant body paragraphs and the insubstantial conclusion, I would give this a 6/12.</p>
<p>^ How am I flaming him? I literally do not understand a large part of the essay. Several sentences don’t make any sense.</p>
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<p>What do these sentences mean? I cannot understand them. At all.</p>
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<p>Okay, I can understand this sentence (with difficulty), but don’t the essay graders care at all about spelling and grammar? The grammar here is clearly far from correct. “did not regarded,” “questioned to,” the capitalization of geocentric, the spelling of Copernicus… and that is just in this sentence.</p>
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<p>I could go on, but I won’t. I understand that this person doesn’t speak English natively and that said, it’s a good essay for someone in his situation I suppose, but if he’s taking the SAT he has to know grammar rules and how to write properly otherwise he won’t do well on the multiple choice either.</p>
<p>@ limabeans
Nobody is gonna steal a sat essay
maybe you meant a college admissions essay.</p>
<p>The sat essay graders are more lenient than you guys actually think.
On my last sat, I wrote a pretty basic essay and got an 8
if I posted it here, all you CCers would’ve given me a 6 or lower hahas.</p>