Tips for Solely using personal experiences for the SAT Essay??

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<p>Hi, I am currently planning on using personal experience to develop my essay for the SAT.
Can you give me some constructive tips for this?</p>

<p>ex) Intro-
Half of the experience-
the other half-
Why the experience fits the topic-
conclusion-</p>

<p>Perhaps this thread can go on to help others.
Continue this please!! Tips for Personal Experience Essay!!!!</p>

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<p>Bump!!!</p>

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<p>Master the art of BS.</p>

<p>OR you can have a look at my tips.</p>

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<p>I would definitely like to check it out. I tried to find it but i failed. Can you give me a link to it or something?</p>

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<p>I need tips for the SAT essay too. thank you</p>

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<p>I only ever made a personal experience example as one of 2-3 examples, so it was only a paragraph in the essay. Worked out pretty well for me anyway…</p>

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<p>I use this. Sorry about the formatting issues.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much!
I would love to use your method but i am quite puzzled in some of the instructions.
Could you give me some of your examples?</p>

<p>for…
i. Lesson Learnt + Consequences or dangers of ignoring the thesis: basically shows the devastating/harmful result of not following what is explained in the thesis.
ii. Counterargument followed by debunking: the power of acknowledging counterargument is that doing so shows impartiality as well as intelligence. Think about the issue presented by the prompt. From what it says, is your notion always the case? It may be apparently wrong, but in fact…
iii. A call to action: suggests possible solution[s] to the question raised by your thesis.
iv. A new value which is unexpected: following this technique shows something more significant than what shows on the surface level ??</p>

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<p>Also, do you normally use historical/literary examples or personal experiences?
And how many examples do you use?</p>

<p>I am not quite sure which format to use.
2 historical/literary events and a personal experience</p>

<p>or </p>

<p>1 personal experience/hitorical/literary examples and elaborate it.</p>

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<p>Well my philosophy is that the examples have to be really fluent. Otherwise, if you try to compare two completely distant examples (i.e. 1984 and Defeat of the Spanish Armada) I think it takes away the flow of the essay.</p>

<p>I put together an essay with two examples and managed to get an 11. It was about discrimination of one boy in my class and I linked the case with what happened with Nazi Germany. And I didn’t just list facts for the historical example. I put insights and analysis.</p>