<p>Actually, that’s how the essay graders grade the essays–holistically.</p>
<p>Uh the length doesn’t matter at all. It’s just that essays with good analysis/structure TEND to be longer than crappy ones. Mine was about a page and a half, got a 12.</p>
<p>make sure to use relevant examples and emphasize them a lot.</p>
<p>If you write more you tend to explain it more, I’d guess. But length do play, if not conscious, a sub-conscious influence in grading your essay. Remember the grading people are under like 3-5 minute per essay constraint. So if they first saw your essay as a really long one, their mind would be prepared for a great essay and score. Unless your long essay really sucked that much… like totally irrelevant, writing it longer definitely helps.</p>
<p>Normally if you write 1.5 pages, you can get around 9~11, depending on your luck, and on what the grader has for breakfast that morning. </p>
<p>
</p>
<p>The world is unfair, get used to it.
- Bill Gates</p>
<p>On SAT essay, quantity > quality. Trust me on this, you won’t regret. :D</p>
<p>3-5 mins? NO way man, 5 mins is WAY too much.
with 5 mins u can finish alot more than that T_T
edit: lol @ breakfast =]</p>
<p>Ren the SAT’er: Believe it or not, graders normally have under ONE MINUTE to grade each essay. A NY Times article I believe says that each reader gets 2~3 minutes. That’s far from the truth.</p>
<p>actually i think it DESERVED a 10. hahahaha. you actually elaborated much on your examples and had some pretty good sentences though most weren’t great. the fact that you wrote till the last line showed you had the aptitude. i suppose had you gone back to edit your essay you would have scored an 11/12.</p>