Can a student decline to take the SAT writing test?

<p>The writing section is now part of the SAT. Students need to plan to take the WHOLE test…not sections of it. There have been questions in the past about why students who got an 800 on one section of the test would have to repeat that section. The answer is clear…the SAT has three sections. When you take the test, you take all three sections.</p>

<p>You have to take the writing. The student needs to write an opening paragraph with the thesis, about three or four paragraphs giving examples of the thesis, then a cnclusion paragraph wrapping it up. Don’t make grammatical errors. That’s it. It does not have to be overly creative or clever. My D wrote straighforward essays as described above and did extremely well in that section. Don’t be afraid and overthink it.</p>

<p>Macnyc: CollegeBoard has a table rubric with the grammar score on one axis of the table and the writing score on the other. The table shows the final score. The rubric changes slightly from one test to another. 560 is your daughter’s final score from the rubric table. Please tell her not to leave the essay blank. Writing anything would have improved her final score by 20-30 points for each point scored on the essay.</p>