How much does the essay count in SATI?

PrEpKiD
Sat, 06 May 2006 19:40:00 +0000

for the first two SATs i took, i got the exact same score except writing went down by 20 pts. the only difference was that my essay went down one point (same mc, amazingly). so one essay point=20…so essay’s 240/800…exactly 30%.