<p>My biggest weakness for the essay is brainstorming the topics. I know that on my first SAT, I glanced at my watch and I was already 5 minutes into the test not knowing what I was going to write about. This is just WAY too much time wasted. I want to reduce that to about 30 sec to a minute of brainstorming. My problem is that I just can’t think of any topics to write. I printed out a list of topics to write about: Great Depression, Oppenheimer/Atomic Bomb, Dust Bowl, Tale of Two Cities, Gandhi, and Einstein, but these topics do not encompasses all the SAT prompts. How do you guys prepare for the brainstorming part? Should I print out summaries of around 20 biographies/important events? If so, which biographies/events are good?</p>
<p>Napoleon is always an interesting example.</p>