<p>For some reason, on most of the princeton review prep class essays, I've gotten an average of 6, but I got mostly 10s on the Collegeboard essays. Is it because the PR graders are tough or just that their prompts are obscure?</p>
<p>there is a thread that says PR is harder than the bluebook, that must also apply to the essay.</p>
<p>Do you mean the PR class? And also the 10s on those essays, were those graded by the automated one in the online course?</p>
<p>yeah, the PR class gave me 6s but the satonlinecourse gave me 10s.</p>
<p>i didnt go the the class but opted for the online essay grading service and it was quite accurate. i got a 9 to begin with and then 2 12's but most of the time it was a 10. but the grader's comments were quite helpful. i ended with a 11 on both my attempts on the SAT..</p>
<p>We, at ceeae.org, have found but have not published yet that the collegeboard service, although it has it's faults is fairly accurate. In fact, the main problem with essay grades is that the graders themselves apparently apply different criteria, so it is not uncommon for the same essay to receive 2 different scores that differ by 2 points or more.</p>
<p>One of our tutor participants, who both grades essays and takes the SAT himself received a 9 on his essay the first two times he took the actual SAT!!</p>
<p>We are in the process of verifying the collegeboard.com results but probably won't be able to conclude anything until late August, so pehaps this helps or perhaps it merely confounds.</p>
<p>what about a research?</p>
<p>I found that PR grading is actually.. easier than the real one. I've gotten several 12's on the PR essays, and these essays just dont seem up par with scores of 12.</p>