SAT ESSAY GRADING

<p>Hi, I'm preparing for SAT essay section, and although I've got many practice essays written, I can't really get a fair grade and good feedback. I've already posted some online for other people to grade, but since they're not trained essay graders, their grade isn't consistent (one essay, for example, I got 7 from one person and 10 from other, with many in between).</p>

<p>Do you guys know any free (or fairly cheep) online SAT essay grading system? Please give me DIRECT LINK to the page... Also, if you guys know any good SAT essay prep book, please let me know.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>P.S. I already know that the College Board has the essay grading system in their website somewhere, but I can't find where it is. - (direct link please)</p>

<p>Frankly essays are a tricky thing to judge. College Board automatic essay checker is the biggest scam to fall for. It only checks your grammar and length of your essay and gives you a mark. If I were you I would simply look for critique on your essays/ways to improve rather than a score. A score is variable but a critique would definitely help. If you are looking for free critique simply post it a thread and wait for people to post. My summer vacations have just started so I will try to help out when I can. However if you dont like waiting or want more professional people helping you. I would pm some member to critique and grade your essay for you for a fee.</p>

<p>You could always post your essay here and ask for not just a grade but follow up comments. You can feel free to ignore anyone who doesn’t give you a reason behind the grade they give you. I know it’s annoying to see differences in scores but if you even get a few helpful tips for improving your essay, it would be worth it.</p>

<p>This is my essay:
In the modern world, very little of the majority of society’s personal lives is kept private. What with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other such social networking websites out there, everybody’s friend wants to know what their friend’s friend is doing and when. You have to take a picture of that bowl of ice cream you’re eating, or your new Sketchers. It’s just about impossible to find an individual in this society who hasn’t revealed a tiny bit of personal information online. Based on these statistics, I affirm that people indeed should make more of an effort to keep some things private, especially home addressed, phone numbers, emails, locker combinations, and PINS for credit/debit cards. But social networking isn’t the only outlet in which people divulge either personal information or secret information about another person that should be kept private. Although social networking has greatly hindered the ability of this generation’s youth to communicate face to face, that is exactly how both some boys and girls are choosing to insult, bully, and put others to shame for their own morbid enjoyment. To do so would be ‘unpopular’ and “to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings” (Velleman). But it turns out that if we didn’t have social networking, this issue in itself would be a whole lot worse. With social networking, kids get to hide behind the barrier of a computer monitor and still call others repulsive and derogatory names, offending such things as sexual orientation, race, and religious beliefs. Without this barrier, those brave enough to still continue with the harassment, which is fewer than expected, because all bullies are some form of coward, will go full-force in the person’s face. On the other hand, some might say that there are too few of these people, brave enough not to respect those they may dislike, but to insult them right to their faces. But tell me this: how can you call words like ‘n&%^$r’ and ‘s^%t’ too few to hurt? The lives of suicidal teenagers across the world can answer that question. But aside from the youthful fountain of shame, adults too use social networking and gossip all the same, and this can diverge, more than youth, anyway, from the bullying aspect and more towards the revealing of personal information that could cause such horrible events as stalking, suicide, and date rape. A woman meets a seemingly intriguing single foreign man online and he asks for money to come and see her in the States. She gives him her credit card number to withdraw cash, and bam, she becomes a victim of identity theft. There exist all too many of these stories. It’s mainly because of fear. Fear tells us, falsely, of course, that honesty cannot be acheived without telling ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’. We have been brainwashed into thinking that all the baddies of society, like O.J. Simpson, Lee Harvey Oswald, even Justin Bieber, were liars, and thus people falsely trusted them. But it turns out that the slow degradation of moral values in our society has blinded us from the fact that personal and religious truths not only exist but are necessary to individuality. Basically, what must be kept private makes us who we are, not what other people want us to be; otherwise, it wouldn’t be ‘private information’ in the first place. In conclusion, I think it’s best to say that, although there are too few exceptions to this, our society has to do a better job of returning to the even as far as religious foundations of this great country in order to make peace among ourselves and with other nations. Among these values is truth, and with true comes both personal, and only what others absolutely need to know to help and work with you. We have so many conflicts and wars going on in the world today, but when you think about it, all of these come from bullying. And if we all just knew the difference betwen personal and pubic selves and truths, this world would be a lot more peaceful. Remember, a wise man once said, “It has been said that you should love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say that you should love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; for if you love only those who love you, what recompense will you have?” (Jesus Christ, The Passion of the Christ - 2004)</p>

<p>2014-2015 SAT Practice Essay
Could you please grade on 1-6 scale and give comments? Thanks!</p>

<p>Would anyone be nice enough to grade mine
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1675820-grading-sat-essay.html?new=1”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1675820-grading-sat-essay.html?new=1&lt;/a&gt;
any advice would be highly appreciated.</p>

<p>Your examples were definitely well-developed- but they would’ve been better if they were real life examples. Gramatically, your essay was errorless- so that’s good! But I honestly don’t know what I’d give it on a scale, you should’ve developed things a bit more with a thesis, your ending was perfect though! It would’ve scored nicely- would you mind grading mine? I’d appreciate any feedback at all
<a href=“SAT Essay grading? - SAT Preparation - College Confidential Forums”>SAT Essay grading? - SAT Preparation - College Confidential Forums; </p>

<p>Oh, and Princeton Review has a live grader that’s about four dollars an essay
<a href=“SAT LiveGrader | The Princeton Review”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/sat-essay-livegrader.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
And I don’t know if this one works, I’ve just recently tested it, and have not yet received a score
<a href=“http://www.essay12.com”>www.essay12.com</a></p>

<p>Honestly, grades for essays are very opinionated and really depends on the grader. I would suggest looking over the College Board rubric, as that is the best judge you will get. Paying for a service may be good, but it is just as good as having a teacher, adult, or professor look over it for you. Remember no service you get will be the same as the graders for College Board. </p>