<p>if i had a total of 11 pages…4,4, and 3 respectively with essay 1,5,2 would i get marked down for too much info…cuz i heard readers only get 90 sec to read essays?</p>
<p>I found most of the test to be easy. The multiple choice had a few trick questions here and there, but the essay topics honestly were not very hard. I wouldn’t be surprised if the score was harder this year.</p>
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<p>The readers will read all of your essays completely. Length does not matter.</p>
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<p>No…are you serious, you think readers have a timelimit? No. They’re given an amount of essays to read…they finish when they finish.</p>
<p>^^^Red…ifeel like youve been on here wasting as much time as i have today. i just joined and its now an obsession haha</p>
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<p>Quite a lot of people are on as much as us or more, but they’re usually lurking and not posting.</p>
<p>I happen to enjoy sharing my thoughts :D</p>
<p>You can get 40 MC right, 30-35 wrong and 9 all your essays and still get a 5. The curve is pretty generous…</p>
<p>My friend said he wrote 8 pages for DBQ. This is not releasing questions or breaking rules right?</p>
<p>Yeah, except getting 9 on all of your essays isn’t exactly an easy thing to do. :P</p>
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<p>Who, exactly, gets 9 on all their essays?</p>
<p>And it’s apparently 35 right, 45 wrong, with straight 9’s you can get a 5.</p>
<p>I hope I don’t get 45 wrong, and I do pray for straight 9’s, but I don’t think I’ll be getting them that easily…</p>
<p>8 pages… how/why?</p>
<p>I don’t know. He writes quick and maybe spaces out more than usual.</p>
<p>The number of people that get 9’s on ANY of their essays is incredibly small… according to the statistics in my 2006 released exam, between 137 students (on question 2) and 433 students (on question 1) were given a score of 9, with numbers of students getting 9’s on the other questions falling in between these two… 0.1% of all test takers got 9’s.</p>
<p>I’m new here and I don’t know how to quote… but to RedCatharsis:</p>
<p>That’s right too… but I really doubt straight 9’s are that hard, especially with the topics given today. I feel that, at worst, all 3 of my essays will get 7’s…</p>
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<p>That’s probably smart–I wrote 7 pages w/o much spacing, just regular sized hand writing, but if I spaced it out more, yes, it would take more pages, but it’d be so much more legible, lol.</p>
<p>I’m sure overwriting will affect you, unless you think clearly throughout. When you are just constantly writing i’m sure you lose flow, but some people are talented.</p>
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<p>I left 2 blank and knew the rest. A 5 for sure.</p>
<p>ok…was I the only one who didn’t write very much for any of them? I think my DBQ was like a page and three quarters and my essays were 1.) a bit over a page and 2.) a page and a half…</p>
<p>I mean, I think I had all correct information…I was missing like one thing from the DBQ and probably a few from the essays…but like will it matter that they were so short? I only used five documents, which is probably not good but the fact that there were ten freaked me out…I tried my best to make sure to answer the question and keep it concise and to the point…</p>
<p>Am I in trouble?</p>
<p>Although length plays no part in your essay’s score, most essays that score 9s or 8s are somewhat lengthy, probably at least 2 pages.</p>
<p>But that’s not to say there aren’t short essays that receive 9s and 8s. Most of the sample essays of 9s and 8s that CollegeBoard releases, however, are somewhat long.</p>
<p>Sorry, that was kind of a vague answer. :P</p>
<p>The Knights of Labor was idealistic/utopian, wasn’t it?</p>
<p>If not, I messed up my 3rd essay horribly.</p>