<p>I was shaking, I had no idea what to write about.
I wrote about:
WWII propaganda, the picture of the Navy guy kissing the nurse, and photoshoots/modeling.</p>
<p>I took a photography class last semester so I was thrilled. Wrote about that, riis, early photography as it became an art form, and tied it together with human desire to capture the moment.</p>
<p>@Koharvard if all you used was a personal story, you will not get a 12.</p>
<p>@EAsoccer
not necessarily true…according to the CB review book at least…it has a personal story about APs listed as the first essay that scored a 12</p>
<p>did it only include that one example of the personal story or did it have other examples</p>
<p>does someone want to explain to me what exactly the prompt was looking for?
now that i think about it, i might’ve gone off topic D:</p>
<p>I thought the prompt was ■■■■■■■■ but easy. I wrote about the “Migrant Mother” Picture from the great depression and how it elicits the emotions of viewer through the picture’s subject, and not the photographers style.</p>
<p>I scrambled for this. I wrote about pictures being straightforward representations of real. I focused on how photography spreads the truth and the news in our modern world. I used a personal example about winning a race because photos declared i won even though i was initially declared second. I also talked about the disaster in Japan and photography immediately showing the world what was going on. </p>
<p>Any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Just two examples? Probably could be stronger with a third but if you are a good writer and filled up the pages…right on </p>
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<p>And here is the dilemma of our educational system. A group of young people who feel like they must KNOW something instead of THINK about it. If you had never taken a photography class…you have seen pictures, you have taken pictures. THINK!</p>
<p>Even if you don’t watch reality tv…I can’t imagine that you haven’t seen a commercial or two for something (and you don’t need cable tv for reality tv…it started on the networks).</p>
<p>THINK!!!</p>
<p>Did any of you see the article at [Reality</a> TV and the SAT: Did students miss the point of the essay question? - Parenting on Shine](<a href=“http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/reality-tv-and-the-sat-did-students-miss-the-point-of-the-essay-question-2465881/]Reality”>http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/reality-tv-and-the-sat-did-students-miss-the-point-of-the-essay-question-2465881/), stemming from a point on this thread?? From what I have read in this thread, those of you who got the photography prompt had very different but quite interesting perspectives and probably did better than those with the reality TV prompt and it’s very obvious arguments. Note that the article said that, according to a 2007 study, most colleges didn’t pay much attention to the essay score. Relax.</p>
<p>I honestly cant believe the question about reality TV. I do not watch reality TV, I barley even watch TV. Why are they dumbing down this test. Are they honestly not taking this seriously? This is a test student take to get into college, not some celebrity blog. I wish they took the question seriously and asked something more fundamental in which I would have to use what I actually learned in english class to answer the question.</p>
<p>Chill off, dude. Anyone with some brains could have pulled off a decent essay on that topic. The fact that it was about a current popular phenomenon does not make it a dumb topic to write about. Chill off, ok?</p>
<p>OK, I got the really awful reality show topic. So I was forced to write about Snooki and the Situation. Just read the photography question at the College Board site. Would have written about Jacob Riis (photographs of immigrants on Lower East Side) and Dorothea Lange (Migrant workers in Great Depression). Photography topic was soooooo much better than the reality show topic.</p>
<p>What was your score, if you don’t mind…?</p>