"Although it is sad to say, the length of your essay is an important factor." !!!!!!!

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<p>“Fill up as many of the available lines as you can.” (158) from The Princeton Review Reading and Writing Workout for the New SAT book.</p>

<p>Is this piece of advice true!?? Please tell me it’s not so. If it’s not true, I don’t know if I can even depend on this book.</p>

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<p>Princeton Review is…unique. LOL. They have some really interesting strategies, and you have to decide which ones are crock and which ones will actually work you.</p>

<p>This is not true. There’s another thread on this…</p>

<p>To get a high score, you must have a mature writing style and flesh out detailed and highly supportive examples. Don’t worry so much about “writing a lot”; worry about writing well. In any case, however, you shouldn’t be “done” before they call time, as 25 minutes is NOT enough time to write a good essay. Which is probably why PR suggests to just work as long as you can. They don’t care if the essay is finished. It just needs to be good.</p>

<p>That said I think Princeton Review is basically pretty reliable. Honestly, though, be smart about their “strategies”. Your years of formal education will aid you ;).</p>

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<p>i got an 11 with 1.4 pages written.</p>

<p>Just make sure if it is short, elaborate deeply on one of your examples and you will at least be guaranteed a 10 as long as its organized well and is free of most grammatical mistakes.</p>

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<p>i read a story, theres a professor at MIT that can determine the score an essay got 95% of the time correctly on the SAT from 20/25 feet away, if that means anything to you</p>

<p>theres always the chance he had bionic eyes, but really he was going by length, and maybe handwriting</p>

<p>obviously, nobody writes a long piece of trash just to make it bigger, so it might be correlation and not causation making the scores higher, but it seems like some sort of trend to me</p>

<p>hope this is relevant</p>

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<p>The advice is true.</p>

<p>It may not get you a 12 per se, but it’ll get you 10+.</p>

<p>I got a 12-full 2 papes.</p>

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<p>very very true. I wrote 1.2 pages anf got an 8 :(:(:(:(:(:frowning:
the longer it is the better your score will be</p>