<p>I got a 12 on my SAT essay in March, and I didn’t write a single essay to practice. The day before the SAT, I sat down and thought of a couple of books that I liked and that have many themes which could be used in many different topics. My favorites are Brave New World, and The Jungle, but really any book could be used. I looked up the basic synopsis for the books and memorized some little details to use in my essay if I needed to. Then I learned how to fake examples (using this website:[[GUARANTEED</a> 12] How to write a 12 essay with Fake Examples [GUARANTEED 12]](<a href=“http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic68493.html][GUARANTEED”>http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic68493.html)). But I did not fake the entire example, because, like you, I found it hard to think of an entire new event to lie about. I researched a real event, and used that as the background for my example, then focused in on a specific person (who is fake) and used them to relate to my thesis. I found that war generals are very good fake examples.
You definitely do not need to think of 25 examples. I think I came up with like 5 the day before, and that was it.
Also, throughout the essay, it is good to use some good vocab. You don’t need to incorporate a lot, but just a couple words through the essay is good.
And finally, WRITE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. Studies have shown that how much is written correlates with what score you get, so try and write to at least the middle of the second page, if not the end. (I wrote to the last line).
Finally, if you want to, you can read some other “12” essays to see what a really good essay looks like, so you can copy their basic format (mine is on the 10th page, if you want to read it) <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/409070-sample-sat-12-essays.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/409070-sample-sat-12-essays.html</a> The website above (the fake example one) also has a pretty good basic format template that can be used which I actually used, but I took out the personal pronouns.</p>