<p>For those who scored high on the SAT Essay: What are some examples (literature/history) that you commonly use for any topic on the SAT Essay? I've made a list of examples that I use often for the Essay, but there are times where my examples cannot relate at ALL to the topic that is being described. </p>
<p>I sure could use the help. Thank you so much.</p>
<p>I used Great Gatsby, made up a book, made up a personal experience. 11.</p>
<p>I got an 11 on my essay and I only used two examples, from literature and history:
- Death of a Salesman
- Global Imperialism</p>
<p>Got an 11 and used
-War in Iraq
-Holocaust</p>
<p>How did you tie those topics to the last essay topic?</p>
<p>i got a 9, i used warren buffet, bill gates and some other people</p>
<p>The prompt was is knowledge a burden-
I somewhat changed it to Knowledge may be a burden but it is far less than the cost of ignorance-
Holocaust- Jews were caught unaware of Hitler's plan to kill him until too late- Cost of ignorance was millions of death while burden of knowledge would've been taking action</p>
<p>War in Iraq- US citizens ignorant of the fact that Iraw did not have WMD- cost of ignorance= death </p>
<p>I guess College board liked it........</p>
<p>For the May SAT, my topic was about materialism. I somehow managed to get an 11.</p>
<p>I used Great Gatsby.
I talked about how all of the textile industries are going overseas for materialistic reasons.
And then I made up a personal experience.</p>
<p>Materialism:</p>
<p>Great Gatsby, personal experience (pressure from father to go into business rather than biochem for the money; financial pressures corrupted his once pure desire to "just want me to be happy")</p>
<p>12!</p>
<p>For both ACT and SAT, I wrote two longer, more developed body paragraphs that really addressed the topic. I think that this works better (12 both times).</p>
<p>MATERIALISM:</p>
<p>haha Great Gatsby, American Dream concept (it was a lil stretch here), sumthin about social darwinism...false image of the concept of materialism...</p>
<p>12!</p>
<p>On the May SAT (topic: materialism) DS started out with this quote: </p>
<p>"You are not the contents of your wallet." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club.</p>
<p>I don't know what other things he used, but he got an 11.</p>
<p>For the materialism prompt:</p>
<ul>
<li>Great Gatsby </li>
<li>How advertisements promote a materialistic attitude</li>
</ul>