<p>Honesty? No problem.
Friendship? Pshh.</p>
<p>But what about those stupid prompts that ask you about contemporary society? What do you do then?</p>
<p>Honestly, unless you are current-events-savvy, I’m not how you would approach these types of prompts without using personal examples.</p>
<p>Would it be a good idea to make up a fake example?</p>
<p>You can look up research on whether excessive TV or phone usage negatively affects this or that…or reference a recent fictional work that includes the technological references. I don’t think the graders check the sources you cite, so you could make up such sources.</p>
<p>I, too, am curious about this… I’m sure you could relate it SOMEHOW to historical/literary examples but when I got the October 2013 prompt on how privacy is undervalued in /present/ society, I freaked. :(</p>
<p>Yeah, in the Dec international SAT there was this prompt about consumerism. How do we go about such prompts?</p>
<p>Did you study Henry David Thoreau in English? He’s the first thing that came to mind.</p>
<p>He was a hippy before hippies. You could work him in.</p>