<p>In addition, I’d like to say that I would consider myself as a person with relatively good prose, as I was brought up in an ok neighborhood with relatively few people who speak with grammatical errors, except for perhaps comedic effect. I have read several books considered “literature” such as Anna Karenina, The Catcher in the Rye, The Glass Castle, Shakespearean literature, Dickens, and other works. Nonetheless, the SAT has many ridiculously tiny mistakes, that one would simply skip over because one would not even stop to consider the possibility of such an asinine mistake. Now that is the biggest difference, in my opinion, between the SAT and school tests. If someone were to mispell compliment, it would not be viewed as harshly as completely wrong on the SAT. Or, if an essay had “synonymous to” an average reader would not regard such a use as a mistake. Another example would be the strict use of because of and due to, a concept that I do not fully understand yet. Despite this, if one does not have good prose and a relatively good understanding of the English language, it should be expected that he or she would not even be concerned with such issues, as that would be the basic level, which would then need to be built upon. Luckily, by simply growing up, most of us were able to encounter a wide range of uses of the English language. I remember being astonished by the number of my classmates that knew the word “jettison” by simply watching sponge bob.</p>
<p>I rambled on and on but my point is that both an understanding of English and the SAT specifically, are required to attain a high score, for most people, if not all.</p>