Sat Essay

Test Preparation
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<p>Did anyone else think the essay for the SAT (Saturday) was extremely weird and obscure? What did everyone write about?</p>

<p>I wrote about Cormac McCarthy's, All the Pretty Horses and how John Grady Cole structured his new life to living on the ranch and working with horses, and then I did a personal story about studying for the SATs and how I had to structure my life a certain way to fit in academics and practice tests etc... </p>

<p>(For some reason, I noticed that people who wrote about collegeboard tests in their essays always got a 6 -- at least the practice essays I've seen that have gotten a 6)</p>

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<li>WHAT did YOU write?</li>
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<p>you have to be specific as to what prompt you were assigned to</p>

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<p>The one on: How do people depend on work??</p>

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<p>I did not find it obscure at all actually.</p>

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<p>i just wrote about working, going to school and Friedan's the feminine mystique</p>

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<p>wrote about my uncle and the communist manifesto</p>

<p>i disliked the essay-- but have seen much worse in practice tests</p>

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<p>I thought that it was difficult to find examples to use for the work one. I wrote about the difference between life during the school year and that in the summer.</p>

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<p>I thought it was ridiculous and was not ready for it at all. I normally have a list of about 15 examples that can be used for any topic, yet none of them worked for this stupid ass topic.</p>

<p>I pulled something out of my ass and wrote how women during the late 1800s had low paying jobs such as knitting, and that led to the women's rights revolution led by elizabeth cady stanton and the grimke sisters, which led to seneca falls foundations. The low paying jobs caused the women to unite together and form a revolution.</p>

<p>My second example was from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance" which was a story about a utopian society of 7 or so strangers that met together under the belief of transcendentalism. Their daily activities caused them to become friends and form alliances. Without spending time at the society, they would have never have met because of their culturual differences, and this caused them to be friends.</p>

<p>Last time I got an 8 on the essay and was ****ed as hell about it, now an 8 would be unbelievable after this POS essay i wrote.</p>