<p>Mistakes:
- Sula (This one was actually tough, I had to explain how Sula changed compared to her friend Nel who was deceptive, I probably didn’t do well on that)
- Lennie from Of Mice and Men</p>
<p>Winston Churchill----resisted criticisms, he ignore criticisms of his “pompous” oratory (i think it’s rather unconvincing…)</p>
<p>Charles Strickland (W.S.Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence)----resisted criticisms: one from his father during his childhood, one from his wife for his choice of art, and one from acquaintances casting doubt on his gifts in art</p>
<p>I took the test in HK. The essay is about criticisms. We experienced the greatest SAT test center!!! Over 10,000 test takers supposedly!!</p>
<p>critcism prompt</p>
<p>Abolitionism, Church during Copernicus & Galileo
I know a friend of mine used cultural revolution in 1960s China, which is in fact quite appropriate</p>
<p>Discipline:
The loss of freedom through teen pregnancy as a result of too much discipline at home. Silly example, but I think it was a good essay.</p>
<p>Discipline:
Compared the disciplined leadership of the American Revolution to the disorder of the French. Also made the point that discipline doesn’t always result freedom, using Orwell’s Animal Farm and the history that inspired it as examples.</p>
<p>Totally filled both pages, hoping for a 10.</p>
<p>I used Ghandi, and Guy Montag(Farenheit 451 [Discipline prompt])</p>
<p>Is my essay off topic</p>
<p>For the discipline one, I talked about anthem, how too much strict order doesnt allow one to have personal freedoms and how british strict order over america led to america breaking free from disciipline to get freedom?</p>
<p>I used the early foundations of America (the Articles of Confederation didn’t work because the people weren’t disciplined enough, but eventually they gained freedom and discipline under the Constitution) and I said that the hippie communes didn’t work because the people weren’t disciplined and, because they weren’t disciplined, they had little freedom to choose what they wanted.</p>
<p>I feel like my examples were very roundabout (really BS), but that I answered the question and almost got two pages… hopefully an 11 or 12</p>
<p>I used Oprah, Aang San Suu Kyi, and Educational Institutions for the topic about “Freedom through discipline”</p>
<p>I just pulled a personal essay out of my ass (got a 12 last time by making up a BS story, dunno how I’ll fare this time). Basically, I just wrote about how my parents always forced me to study a lot 3 weeks before my final exams and after I passed the test, I realized the importance of hard work and was “free” of my impulses after that.</p>
<p>^^iLiveonCC… pretty hilarious…</p>
<p>For the criticism one, I wrote about Brand New (my favourite band) and Tim Tebow…Let’s hope I get a Florida fan as my marker :p</p>
<p>^ I wish I had thought to write about Brand New, I LOVE THEM.</p>
<p>How bad is it if I screwed up/got one of my facts wrong? -_- Do they grade more on flow/structure/etc or the actual content…??</p>
<p>I’m almost positive that they are not allowed to fact check you, I’m pretty sure that’s what it says in the blue book.</p>
<p>Discipline Prompt:
- A Tale of Two Cities (focused on aspects of French Revolution)
- Rationing and the draft during WWII
- A Personal Experience</p>
<p>On a side note, how accurate is the online scorer for essays (part of the BB owner’s area/SAT online course)? I was consistently getting 12s on that.</p>
<p>The mistakes prompt:</p>
<p>Mars satellite(pounds vs metric units fiasco)
Attacking Russia during winter(Napoleon and Hitler)</p>
<p>Critisicsm :</p>
<p>Anne Frank
Harry Potter
Isaac Newoton </p>
<p>Sounds weird how these three popped into my head together , they are not related at all. Anywaysz let’s hope I get a good score since Iam not sure that it was a great essay . I’m relying on my 49/49 MC questions to push my score up.</p>
<p>Mistakes:
Galileo
Mandela</p>
<p>darn my conclusion was short b/c i ran out of space (and i even onpurposelly made my word size smaller than usual)=( college board srsly needs to make the essay space three pages instead of 2 pages</p>
<p>Piano</p>
<p>You must first be disciplined and learn scales/chords and practice exercises etc and learn a piece according to its original rules and stuff before you can have freedom to create your own interpretations and original pieces. I elaborated on that idea and talked about one famous Pianist in particular</p>
<p>School/Academics</p>
<p>Need discipline to stay and track and “force” you to learn wide range of essential knowledge, so later you can have the freedom to specialize and pursue whatever area you want, etc.</p>