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I gave my SAT exam for the third time in November and thanks to Allah scored quite high in it. Here are the strategies I used in order to ace the essay:
The SAT essay is one of the sections that most students find difficult to solve. Scoring a 12 in the essay is sometimes considered an impossible feat, here are 5 simple strategies (all tested) that can assure you get a 12 in the essay:
1)Do not jump at the topic. You have a set time of 25 minutes, use the first 5 to read the prompt thoroughly and plan the argument ahead. The most important decision is if you want to support the statement given in the prompt or not. Decide not on feelings or what you feel is morally correct, decide on the topic that you can write the most on.
2)Do not spend time learning thousands of words that you will not remember in a pressure situation, learn 20 to 30 words that can be put to use in generalized situation. The SAT examiners only have a limited amount of time to check the essay so they normally skim through it. Thus they will only have a brief moment and will judge your essay on eye catching words, not the context in which they are used.
3)Examples are important to support your arguments so make a list of 5 to 10 movies. Make sure that they are not highly recognized and then on the exam manipulate the settings according to your requirements. The essay is made to judge our creativity, authentic examples are not required. This is by no chance cheating as the rules do not dictate that the example has to be 100% authentic.
4)Fill the two pages completely. Make sure that you do this as length of the essay does matter and a singled paged essay can never score more than 11 unless you are a magnificent writer. So don’t take a chance and just fill the pages up.
5)Use verity of paragraphs and sentence structure. Use prominent punctuation marks (“:;?.’()”,), but don’t try to be too fancy. Make the paragraphs inter connect with each other and make sure not to use to many vague and unnecessary words (maybe, should, could etc)
ps view the article here: http://ragnarok1992.quazen.com/kids-and ... z1fyhjcHlY
The SAT essay is one of the sections that most students find difficult to solve. Scoring a 12 in the essay is sometimes considered an impossible feat, here are 5 simple strategies (all tested) that can assure you get a 12 in the essay:
1)Do not jump at the topic. You have a set time of 25 minutes, use the first 5 to read the prompt thoroughly and plan the argument ahead. The most important decision is if you want to support the statement given in the prompt or not. Decide not on feelings or what you feel is morally correct, decide on the topic that you can write the most on.
2)Do not spend time learning thousands of words that you will not remember in a pressure situation, learn 20 to 30 words that can be put to use in generalized situation. The SAT examiners only have a limited amount of time to check the essay so they normally skim through it. Thus they will only have a brief moment and will judge your essay on eye catching words, not the context in which they are used.
3)Examples are important to support your arguments so make a list of 5 to 10 movies. Make sure that they are not highly recognized and then on the exam manipulate the settings according to your requirements. The essay is made to judge our creativity, authentic examples are not required. This is by no chance cheating as the rules do not dictate that the example has to be 100% authentic.
4)Fill the two pages completely. Make sure that you do this as length of the essay does matter and a singled paged essay can never score more than 11 unless you are a magnificent writer. So don’t take a chance and just fill the pages up.
5)Use verity of paragraphs and sentence structure. Use prominent punctuation marks (“:;?.’()”,), but don’t try to be too fancy. Make the paragraphs inter connect with each other and make sure not to use to many vague and unnecessary words (maybe, should, could etc)
ps view the article here: http://ragnarok1992.quazen.com/kids-and ... z1fyhjcHlY