<p>I'm not too worried about missing questions the next time I take the test. I just missed the three that I did miss due to being worried about time. My SAT essay was a 7, and my ACT essay was a 9.</p>
<p>So, how can I improve on the essay portion? </p>
<p>My score this time was a 650, so if I got my essay up to about a 9-10, what kind of a score would I be looking at?</p>
<p>I think you are looking at a ~30 point improvement.</p>
<p>Improve your essay by building a fixed, pre-created lay-out. Worked well for me.</p>
<p>I’m definitely planning on doing that next time. I just had no idea what to expect the first time around and hadn’t even looked at an SAT prompt, so I was unsure of what to do the first time around.</p>
<p>Write and upload some essays in the SAT prep forum, you’ll get feedback there.</p>
<p>Okay, now I am constantly getting a score of 12/12 on my essays from an actually College board grader. However I will get like minus 2 to 7 on the MC, which gives me around 700~800<br>
Writing Tips
Fact:
*The average time an SAT grader spends on an essay is 12 seconds, no joke. </p>
<p>They skim and just look over it. Try to use big impressive words it, even if not in the right context. (I am not recommending using them in the wrong context, but explaining that if you screw up once they most probably wont catch it.) </p>
<p>Tend to stay away from personal references, they do not convince the reader as much as stronger refernces. </p>
<p>Best References: HISTORICAL and LITERARY.
Use historical facts pre-dating the 1960s.
Use classical literary examples not like Twilight or some garbage. (lol) </p>
<p>Have a intro, 3 examples, and a conclusion.
I usually do 2 historical and 1 literary or 2 literary and 1 historical</p>
<p>What really helped me was to get a good score was to plan out essays to control the 25 minute limit.
I went to past examples planned out my three examples and made sure I had a list of 3 good words to use in each example.</p>
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<p>Calling BS on this.</p>
<p>Also do not agree on your examples, two tends to work best as it forces students to analyse and not simply recount plot. It is very possible to achieve a 12/12 with use of only personal examples, they are by no means necessarily weaker than contemporary/literary/historical examples.</p>
<p>I also never “planned” any examples in the “planning” sense, I always responded to the question at hand with an open mind. I fear that trying to cram a square example into a circular question is only going to hurt you.</p>
<p>I missed 3 on Writing, got 11 on Essay. It was a 760. So if you improve your essays, definitely a great improvement.</p>
<p>Aim for greater length, not higher quality of response. Expanding upon a new idea in an additional paragraph might bump you up from a 7 to an 8 or 9. </p>
<p>Concentrate on the MC - a perfect MC will more than make up for what the graders deem to be a lackluster essay. Depending on the curve, you may score an 800 with an 8 essay or possibly a 7.</p>