<p>Here is the prompt
According to the SAT Online Course I got a 6 but I think it is more like a 4 or 5...
could some help me improve my mistakes..
I noticed that the last sentence of the body paragraph was unneccessary because I didn't elaborate on it...</p>
<p>Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.</p>
<p>We often hear that we can learn much about someone or something just by casual observation. We are not required to look beneath the surface or to question how something seems. In fact, we are urged to trust our impressions, often our first impressions, of how a person or a situation seems to be. Yet appearances can be misleading. What seems isnt always what is.</p>
<p>Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>My Essay:
What seems to be something is not always the same as it is. For example a rose seems aesthetically pleasing at first but when touched may induce deleterious pain by the prickly thorns on its stems. First impressions are what we see first but only by analyzing something deeper can we truly find a meaning to something. My reply will be based on a personal anecdote upon Biology.
Biology - what I perceived it to be - was a class where every student could merely memorize vocabulary and seem precocious. I truly understood that this is statement is false this year. Possibly the reason why I chose to make this assumption before was because of my first impression. During last year's biology class several students would make vocabulary cards before every test and seemed to acknowledge everything there is to know about Biology. When I once asked one of my fellow students "If Krebss cycle needed ATP, what came first ATP or Krebss cycle?" The student then replied it wasn't in the book so it isnt important. His philosophy of life was the antithesis of mine. He simply studied Biology for a college application while I was avid to how Biology worked. From childhood I had always questioned everything before I learned it. My self realization occurred this year where the material was completely different. Over the summer I had analyzed Biology to dig deeper into the world beyond the facade I had encountered last year. I finally found what Biology was, a study of a system of components that worked together to make a living thing, not a couple of vocabulary words that can help me get an A in class. This knowledge from the summer had strongly changed my perception of Biology in class. My new Biology teachers policy mandated true Biological understanding rather than petty repetitions of excerpts from the text. Several students found his type of class painful while I, who had finally understood what Biology is, had been unscathed. Biology though was not the only class where I saw this transformation from "what seems to be" and "what is".
Only through true understand with analysis can someone surely understand something. Even as you are reading this essay of mine you will not truly understand who I am. Everything in life needs extensive analysis or it is spurious. Life is logical yet only a few can understand it and not take it for granted. Using logic from my anecdote in Biology class I conclude that life is full of meaning but only for those who look deeper past the flesh and analyze.
"Quod erat demonstrandum"</p>