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I don’t know how you would know this, I imagine people stretch the truth all the time.</p>
<p>The essay instructions say “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, experiences or observations.”</p>
<p>So where is the part that it is okay to make things up or distort history? Do you actually need to have the collegeboard crack down on people deliberately writing falsehoods to understand what is being asked? </p>
<p>I understand the essay is a test of one’s ability to write but it is assumed that people will try to pull from real information.</p>