essay grading help!!!!!!!

hkshah · 07-20-2008, 07:09 PM

hi everyone, I am new to college confidential

I was wondering when you take a practice test, how do you accurately grade yourself? I took the SATs in November to see where I am and how much more I should study and I got an 8 on the essay portion- and I had thought I would do much better on it. I took it again in May, hoping I would be done with it, but my scores ended up being cancelled- so now I do not even have a benchmark of how much I've improved and how much more I need to do. I have studied a ton since I took the exam in November and I just do not know how to accurately grade my essays- I feel like they have gotten better, but I don't know. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

hkshah · 07-22-2008, 11:12 PM

hey can someone plzzzzzz help? i really need it :/

lolcats4 · 07-23-2008, 01:54 AM

Well I think it's impossible to grade your own essay. I get my parents to be my two readers, which is nice because they read it slowly and are much pickier than the real SAT readers.

Alternatively you could just roll a dice and assign that number as your score :O

12love · 07-26-2008, 11:14 AM

Use the rubric that Collegeboard gives you. I personally do not grade my own tests, but if that is my last resort I will. I take a SAT prep course, so we have weekly SAT tests. The owner grades the essays. She is a Phd graduate from Columbia. I usually get 10s or 11s.