<p>what subject should i write about in my essays. some thing that is unique and can fit into almost any prompt. please help i suck at essays.</p>
<p>I got a 12 on the essay section. </p>
<p>1) The best advice I can tell you is to make up a story, something that no one will write about. Twist the question a bit. My prompt was cooperation vs competition. I pretended I was in a rock band as a leading guitarist. Yeah right, I suck at guitar. But I said harmony was essential for music, not my killer improvisation skills that cost my band the competition. Don’t be like “I got a friend named Neo. He can fly and jump between worlds” though…
2) Don’t write about sport events, unless its a notable feat. If a sports story can fit into the prompt, it probably means thousands of people will write about it.
3) Essay graders like different stories. If the prompt is about rights, don’t freakin write about Martin Luther King.
4) This is your intro. 4-5 sentences long. 1. A hook on sentence. 2. Leading up to connect to thesis. 3. Thesis. (YOU HAVE TO PICK A SIDE. You will be pwned if you say ‘the prompt can go both ways.’ ) 4. Write this "blah blah blah demonstrates that ‘a side in a prompt’ is right. No matter how extreme the choices in the prompt are (lets say 'do you love your mom more or your dad more?), you will pick a side and defend it.
5) Try to write two short paragraphs, or one long one.
6) Conclusion. 2-4 sentences. Usually, something you learned from the experience is good. Or something that defined your character
6) This is what my SAT class math teacher did. He sucked at English. He memorized 3 essays (only the bodies) and got it proof read and perfected. Two personal experiences, and one political issue. He then highlighted the words he could change in the body to fit the prompt. At the test, he just changed the intro and the conclusion to fit the prompt. He got a 11 and SAT and perfect score on TOFL. (btw, he went to cornell).
7) Since you might be making up a story, think 5 min while everyone immediately starts writing. 25 min is plenty of time.
8) Proof read… but only if you have time. Just write well the first time. One trick I used was make random scratch marks so it looks like I proof read. =)
9) Practice making up stories with previous essay prompts. Get a list, then think “i will do running a marathon for this… i will do food eating contest for this… i will do psychology for this… i will do death of my mom from cancer for this… i will do a speech competition for this… blah blah blah.” If you combine all the practice essays I wrote, and if they were true, my whole family is dead, and my pets (dog, iguana, and parrot). I thought death appealed to the essay readers. If they give a low score from writing something as deep as death, they have low morals. It can’t be obviously fake. (My mom died while resisting rape from 20 high schoolers) (or is it realistic enough?)
10) Once you read the prompt and you know exactly what you want to write, and you are sweating to fill up that 1 1/2 pages, go right in. Ignore this crap.</p>
<p>^ That’s good advice. To add, I always write about Harry Potter because it can relate to just about everything, and it keeps me happy instead of "argh I hate SATing this early in the morning!</p>