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Old 10-04-2008, 08:50 PM   #46
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did anyone get an essay question on whether decisions made quickly are just as good as ones made slowly?
the prompt was difficult, and i definitely did bad on it. i want to see what other people thought... but it looks like the majority of people got the compromise prompt.
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Old 10-04-2008, 08:50 PM   #47
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y is urs different?
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Old 10-04-2008, 08:53 PM   #48
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i don't know. i usually get the same ones as people on cc. so i started to think i read the prompt wrong, but i checked collegeboard, and they say they have 4 prompts? i wish i had the compromise one because that prompt was hard!
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Old 10-04-2008, 08:53 PM   #49
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they may have different prompts for very different timezones since it is probably easy to share it
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Old 10-04-2008, 08:57 PM   #50
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all the prompts should be general and quite broad enough to relate to..
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Old 10-04-2008, 08:58 PM   #51
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I did pretty well on the essay.
Expecting at least an 11.
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Old 10-05-2008, 12:13 AM   #52
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If one were to not have time to finish a conclusion and ran out of time mid-way through writing about a 2nd example, would that have a significant impact on the score if the rest was very well written?
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Old 10-05-2008, 12:22 AM   #53
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i wrote an okay intro
1st example rosa parks(okay i guess)
2nd example beowulf(kinda rushed lol had 7 mins left when i started 2nd example)
conclusion was okay
2 more lines to fill in 2 pages, expecting 10~~
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Old 10-05-2008, 03:28 AM   #54
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For the decisions essay I wrote about the Economic Crisis as well, only to realize after than most likely a bunch of people wrote about that.
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Old 10-05-2008, 07:34 AM   #55
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I wrote about Fahrenheit 451. This essay is definitely not the 11 I got last time. :/
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Old 10-05-2008, 09:10 AM   #56
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I used WWII and Beowulf
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Old 10-05-2008, 12:13 PM   #57
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dbsklove, i had the same one. there are different ones throughout the country (not many, ~~~half a dozen)
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Old 10-05-2008, 12:24 PM   #58
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I used Romeo and Juliet for 3 paragraphs, didn't underline the title, and didn't end up with a conclusion. After time was called, I wanted to change the last two words, but obviously it was too late. It felt really rushed this time, while last time I felt good about it and got 8. Hopefully I get 8 again. I'm not hoping for anything better.

Oh, and I got the decisions prompt.
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Old 10-05-2008, 12:24 PM   #59
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the diversity is not important. what is important is the relevance. on the last SAT essay i wrote about the Kyoto treaty, orwell's 1984, Sartre, greenhouse effect and the beat generation and it only got me an 8. of course, i didn't switch so abruptly from one idea to another:P it made sense...a little

on yesterday's sat i wrote about a personal invented experience(smth really lame about firsthand experience with the disadvantaged, but RELEVANT in the context), again about global warming, Galileo Galilei, one Baudlaire quote and I wanted to say something really cool about comunism in Romania and the lies about economy and production stolen from Mao, but I lacked the time, of course.
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