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05-04-2008, 09:03 AM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah Feed, I felt I needed to use some sort of book example, that's what I came up with :\. I had like 2 lines left. | 
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05-04-2008, 09:03 AM
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#17 | | Member
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| Okay, if you had a good flowy essay, respectable vocab, and varying sentence structure, definitely a 9. I wrote a really bad essay last time and got an 8. It was about 1.5 pages long too. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:05 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| i hope i dont get a nine cuz thats what i got 3 years ago =( | |
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05-04-2008, 09:06 AM
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#19 | | Member
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| ^ If you think you did better, then you know you'll get above 9. 
I think you will... (I said at least a 9). | |
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05-04-2008, 09:20 AM
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#20 | | Junior Member
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| How about these examples for tech essay:
Could you score this please? I supported it, and I said the following:
Safety: While modern technology helps us get around quicker, there are still harms to using it. I used the MagLev Train Disaster in France form last year and the South African Airways crash, both of which were caused due to faulty equipment.
Privacy: Used 1984 by Orwell to show harms of excessive use of technology in society (telescreens).
Health: America has an obesity crisis. Gone are the days when schoolchildren walked in groups to schools; now they use the bus. Everywhere we go, whether it is down the street, or a just around the block, is now by car or bus. We used to be able to lose weight from manual work, now we cannot. Example 2: While pharma drugs help save many lives, there is still is no foolproof method for knowing full effects. Used Vioxx and Baycol (both faulty drugs that caused deaths).
Society: Familial ties are being broken down. Dinnertime used to be a time when we discussed the day's events with our family. Now it has become American Idol and SportsCenter time. This is leading to a less tight familial structure. Advent of technology like TV has caused this.
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05-04-2008, 09:24 AM
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#21 | | Member
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| ^ You got an 11 or 12 coming your way, buddy. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:40 AM
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| I am the one that started this thread but no one told me anything about mine...doesnt really seem right imo. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:42 AM
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#23 | | Member
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| ^ Sorry, hm, definitely an 8 (they're everyday examples but if you elaborated appropriately... not bad)... how long was it? vocab? etc.? | |
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05-04-2008, 09:45 AM
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#24 | | Junior Member
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| page and a half-page and 3/4. Vocab was probably about above average, nothing special. I felt sentence structure was great and I elaborated on the topics in different ways and explained them each several ways. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:46 AM
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#25 | | Junior Member
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| Hmm
Sorry about that. Assuming that it indeed is okay grammatically and that you varied your vocabulary a little bit, it is sounding 9'ish to me. As feed asked, could you elaborate on your essay a bit more in terms of basics, such as length and structure? | |
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05-04-2008, 09:47 AM
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#26 | | Junior Member
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| well i just told you length, it was broken down into intro, two body and conclusion. And what do you want to know about the structure? | |
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05-04-2008, 09:48 AM
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#27 | | Junior Member
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| Whoops
You posted right before me! :-). A solid 9 from me. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:48 AM
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| ^ I think you definitely have an 8 in your lap... depends on the reader. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:52 AM
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| Thats fine with me Those were the scores I was going for. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:53 AM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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| Yeah...
The essays can tend to be very subjectively graded from the readers. I had a score dispute on the last time I took it (December '07). They sent me the detailed report, so I got to know I got a 6 and a 3 initially, and finally the master scorer had to step in and gave me a comp. of a 10. It's really weird as to how they grade them, and I would be fascinated to get to know the process in depth. I mean, they are, to a certain degree, playing around with our futures after all. | |
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