<p>So I took the SAT in May and got a 700 writing. My essay was good (12), but my MC stuff was only a 64.</p>
<p>If I take it again, and my MC score goes up, but my essay drops to an 11 or a 10 or something, do they take your best essay and your best multiple choice, or just your best overall?</p>
<p>I think they take the overall score.</p>
<p>Unfortunately they take the best overall score for each section.</p>
<p>if your MC goes up your overall score should also go up, unless your essay drops a lot. 2-3 points shouldn't make a big difference.</p>
<p>How do you score a 12 in the essay? I've seen CCers comment that if you fill up 2 pages of decent esssay words, then you're pretty much guarantted at least a 10. That true?</p>
<p>It's not true. I wrote well (got an above average score) and filled up both pages and got a 9.</p>
<p>I filled both pages, and while it might not have been the greatest writing, it had decent essay words and got an 8.</p>
<p>Oh, I only filled up one page and maybe a third of the second page and I got a 9. And here I was feeling all sad because I thought I could have gotten a better score if I had filled it all the way. XD</p>
<p>It's definitely more important to do well on MC than Essay.</p>
<p>I got 1 wrong on the MC (80) which is ~70% of your score, and a 9 on the Essay, ~30% of your score, and somehow got an 800.</p>
<p>PS; I wrote 1 1/2 pages for the Essay.
I don't really think length plays much of a role.. Although I'm sure essays that get 12's almost always fill both pages, since they're full of detailed examples and nice language and all that.</p>
<p>My friend and I each got a 69 for MC scores. I got a 12 on my essay, he got a 10. I ended up 40 points higher with a 740. If you drop a few points in your essay... it might make a somewhat significant difference. Depends on the score you're aiming for.</p>
<p>I filled both pages. I took it in May, when the prompt was on the group victory/personal preference.</p>
<p>I supported my thesis with both a personal example and a larger-scale example (US women's gymnastics team from the 2004 Olympics).</p>
<p>Taking AP English and writing about 30 or 40 AP prompts over the course of the year probably helped. I had a really anal-retentive teacher.</p>