<p>I came across a couple of CC posts that all advise to MAKE UP essay examples e.g. come up with a wacky name for a book, make the plot relevant to the prompt and describe it in your essay.</p>
<p>Do essay readers check all your non-conventional examples for factual accuracy (they can't...... right?) and is it possible to score 11/12s using this approach, or is it too risky?</p>
<p>i was also wondering the same! please reply! test is after 12 hours</p>
<p>You have my word. Readers don’t care about factual details. That said, what you need to get a 11 is using relevant examples and showing good mastery of language (SAT vocab + varied sentence structure).</p>
<p>I expect a jkjeremy post to appear soon on this page.</p>
<p>You definitely can. The three times I took the sat, i made up examples for the essay, and received two 10s and a 12.</p>
<p>=/ oh so I labored over all those history books for nothing… BAH -.- I got an 8 and a 9 using factual material that I tried to fit and was never successful.</p>
<p>The straight-up answer is yes, you may make up examples in your essay. Since the SAT is a standardized test, if they fact checked one essay College Board would have to check all of them, and this is just not possible. </p>
<p>However, be very careful when crafting your fake examples. College Board cannot account for the feelings of each individual grader, and as a result, each grader is able, to some extent, to incorporate his or her opinion into the score. This is why you should never talk about really controversial topics like gun control or immigration. For the same reason, if you give an outrageously fake example, you might insult the reader’s intelligence.</p>
<p>I made up “smart-sounding” examples. Talked about monks copying out the Bible to give hope to poor people in the 11th Century, Pablo Picasso (though I made up everything in this example but his name) and gay marriage in France (made up the name of policymakers and dates).</p>
<p>Got an 11 (:</p>