essay

Test Preparation
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<p>My english teacher was grading my SAT essay that I wrote and she was correcting me on capitalization, spelling, comma , and other punctuation errors. How significant is punctuation on the ACT/SAT essay? Because I got a 6/5 on the ACT essay when I was there but she said that she would give me a 2.</p>

<p>what happened </p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>is your teacher just super harsh?</p>

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<p>remember, these tests are made to evaluate your baseline intelligence, if your teacher is an AP or honors teacher, she’d expect more out of an essay than graders who are checking the bare minimum</p>

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<p>I hope you realize that your question is impossible to answer, right?</p>

<p>I could hazard a guess and say that your teacher is harsh, it does appear that way.
However, it’s equally likely that I’m wrong.</p>

<p>Without seeing the essay or knowing the teacher, it is impossible for anyone on this forum to gauge the situation. No one on this forum is even qualified to score essays at all anyways.
Well, perhaps there are some scorers on the site- but you get my point.</p>

<p>Write your best essays, check for flawless grammar and appropriate word choice, and enter your exams with confidence.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Actually, grammar is very important for your essay. Aside from the common practice of docking marks for poor grammar, a poorly written essay actually weakens your argument. The marking of these essays is largely subjective. If the writing is poor, your point is going to come across the same way.</p>

<p>For SAT in particular, they will absolutely take away significant marks for grammar. For the ACT, not as much. Either way, you need to improve your grammar. You’ll have to do it eventually if you want people to take you seriously in college and the rest of your life.</p>

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<p>not with a bang, but a whimper %-( </p>

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<p>@LisaCF‌ thanks… but the funny thing is that I actually did BETTER (lol) on the SAT than on the ACT essay </p>