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<p>so yes, I have written my first-ever SAT essay. Just want to know how it is. However, if you do not want to read it, you can post whatever relating to the SAT Essay.
thankss</p>

<p>my essay</p>

<p>Question: What is your view of the claim the knowing facts isnt as important as understanding ideas and concepts?</p>

<pre><code> Knowing facts is not as important as understanding ideas and concepts. Humans are given logical reasoning abilities and are not filled with bunch of useless facts. Knowing the facts may make one look smarter, however, understanding the ideas and concepts is more important since one can ultimately come up with a fact by understanding the idea and the concept behind something.

Many of the scientists are not known as book nerds or fact machines. Instead, many are believed to be logical thinkers. Their reasoning ability and ability to understand complex concepts made them famous. Albert Einstein, for example, was known as one the greatest logical thinkers in the world. His theory, E=MC2, of mass and force relation was not derived by memorizing the facts of the world. He had studied some phenomenons of the world and logically came up with the theory. this theory is a foundation for studying many other topics in science. A fact would not be capable of doing that as it is limited to one or two things.

From personal experience, I have found that when I study something and focus on the details and facts, I do worse. I do better when I forucs on an overall concept. When studying chemisty, for example, when I try to memorize the facts, I limit my thought process. When studying the atom, for example, I try to understand the concept around the atom and its parts. When I try to learn the facts and memorize that protons are positive and electrons are negative , I tend to forget. Instead, by understanding the ideas and concepts, I say to myself "opposites attract and since electrons and protons attract, one has to be positive and one has to be negative."

In conclusion, knowing facts is not as important as understanding the ideas and concepts. If one looks at the world as a whole and not in small different pieces, I believe one will understand more about the world. Facts are little pieces and whole ideas and concepts are big pieces that one can eventually carve into little pieces.
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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>I'd give this like an 8 out of 12, which means that it's not bad but not that great. The introduction was okay but a little immature "Knowing the facts may make one look smarter." The first body paragraph about Albert Einstein was focused and you revolved your response around your answer to the question. That's good. Many people spurt out facts about something (much like a summary or an encyclopedia article) and then at the last sentence they simply restate the topic sentence without giving much evidence or analysis at all. The only problem about it was that, based on a physics lecture I saw, it didn't seem like Einstein's development of the theory came so much from understanding ideas, but from having an imaginative mind, for example, observing relativity through a 3-dimensional graph.</p>

<p>The second body paragraph was poorer. You state that you have a better overall understanding of things when you understand ideas rather than the facts. But that doesn't necessarily mean that knowing facts isn't as important. For example, when you stated that "one has to be positive and one has to be negative since they attract," wouldn't it have been better to remember the fact itself? </p>

<p>There are many ways to approach the prompt given. It's a pretty interesting question, although I think that by far most students would say that understanding ideas and concepts is more important than knowing facts. For example, if you're using history to comment on the state of American society, it would be much easier to do so if you understood the general rise and fall of ancient cultures and observe the patterns, rather than memorize dates. </p>

<p>I was reading a book called "The Dumbest Generation," and the author remarked that a lot of college students know very little about civics and government. He mentioned a Harvard professor who claimed that in college, they teach students to understand the concepts more than memorize dates, but the author responds that it's all pretty pointless if students don't know who their governor is, or what the First Amendment says.</p>

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<p>^ thanks. yes that helped a lot.</p>

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<p>please analyze and grade my essay....or if u dont want to just post helpful tips etc.....</p>

<p>my second essay: </p>

<p>Question: What motivates people to change?</p>

<p>"People change." How they do that, what motivates them, does come from within but all the feeligns within a person have come from experience.</p>

<p>There are 6 billion people in the world. I, one of the 6 billion, often look around and say, "I can become like that other one in 6 billion," who is better and more successful than me. I look to people who are better than me. A friend of mine just got into Harvard University, where I often wish to get into. However, when I look at my exam scores, extracurriculars, they are nowhere close to his. Now this did two things for me. One, it made me less self-confident, and two, it motivated me to change to redeem that confidence and achieve success. I evolved into a better person, started to participate in more activities, and developed very important skills like time-managing by observing my successful Harvard friend.</p>

<p>In the book, Monte Cristo, there was a gullible guy who came to be known as Monte Cristo. IN his early 20's, he was promoted as ship captain, found the love of his life, and turned out quite successful. HOwever, his so-called friends were jealous of his success and decided to take advantage of his nice, understanding, and trusting nature. He always looked out for everyone else before himself. However, his jealous friends put up a false warrant against him and put him in jail. After coming out of jail after 23 years and finding how he had been cheating, he changed into a whole new man. He lost his loving look and put on a smirk. He lost his loving nature and took on arrogance. He lost his unselfish nature and wanted to seek revenge.</p>

<p>Often times, the motivatiion to change comes from some harsh life experiences, jealousy, and competition as did for Monte Cristo. Other times it comes from the will to achieve and succeed as it did for me because of my Harvard friend.</p>

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<p>8/12 . like the last sentence i would say ...for me because of my friend in Harvard..sentences need to flow..and i guess you could level up your vocab too. otherwise grammar is good.</p>

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<p>thanks anisha.....how could i have made it better like a 12/12 or 10/12?</p>

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<p>Stop using personal examples.</p>

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<p>the example essay that got a perfect, according to the Blue book, used personal examples. I think it is more about the way you write. I am just not portraying it critically, right?</p>

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<p>bumppppppppppp</p>