<p>I agree with blddrake44, to a degree. You have to be mechanical and obvious to a degree. When I tried to write well and concisely on the SAT, I received an 8, and when I tried to write OK but longer…10.</p>
<p>When I was bored and just wrote 2 pages of personal anecdotes on the October ACT, I got a 12. </p>
<p>You have to write more than a page to break an 8, and more than a page and a 1/2 to get a 12 in my opinion. The more you write, the less time they have to process it all. The occasional problem arises when you get a grader with length bias, they’ll screw you, but you usually don’t recieve 2. Just have logical examples and a lot of them if you want to score well.</p>