<p>I wrote two lines of writing for every line they provide (if that makes any sense).</p>
<p>ohh haha I see. What did you write about? I used a frederick douglass quote and paralleled his struggles with MLKJ’s over a century later. I supported the whole “conflict is necessary for progress” bit.</p>
<p>@immasenior: I filled up both pages and wrote about the exact same topic as you. </p>
<p>I talked about the revolutionary war and then attempted to contrast the grandiose and historical with the personal and introspective by making up a story about how I was bullied and the only way I could progress socially was through struggle (in this case fighting him on the playground). I also argued for the prompt.</p>
<p>@immasenior What do you mean “only 1 and 3/4 pages”?? That’s pretty good unless your handwriting is unusually large. Mine was also 1 and 3/4 pages and I wrote the whole time (although people do tell me that my handwriting is small).</p>
<p>I write somewhat small, but apparently I put a lot of space between my words. I wonder if essay readers do a word count or something like that to determine length.</p>
<p>I didn’t write for the last minute and a half. I was happy with my conclusion and didn’t feel I could add anything effective in what little time was left.</p>
<p>Would Star Wars be considered a bad pop culture example? I felt like I defended the thesis pretty well with this example so I’m hoping for 10+. My other example was the Civil War.</p>
<p>I’m sure both of you did fine.</p>
<p>I really hope so. This is my first time taking the SAT and I’m a nervous wreck right now… I’m so paranoid that I think I might have bubbled my answers in wrong ._.
But in all honesty do you the essay graders will take off for pop culture examples?</p>
<p>No, not consciously at least.</p>
<p>Alright thank you best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>You too.</p>
<p>Did anyone get a writing experimental section. On my test there were two 35 question writing sections. It was section 4 and 5 back to back, and section 4 was harder than section 5. So I feel that section 4 was the experimental section. Does anyone agree?</p>
<p>The writing one that was not experimental had the paragraph editing about Pluto. </p>
<p>Idk why I’m so nervous about this, but I keep coming back to this forum. Still 10 days left, though. </p>
<p>Alright here’s an actual question for you guys to mull over (not from the test, sorry). I was planning on submitting this test to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. I’m a Junior who took the PSAT in October. I don’t want to be obnoxious but suffice it to say I will definitely fall in semifinalist range for my state (Wisconsin). Would this SAT be accepted as valid confirmation of my scores by NMSC, or is there a specific test date score they want you to submit?</p>
<p>Assuming this test score will be recognized by NMSC, when should I send it to them? I obviously plan on waiting to send it until I actually know what I got, in case there was some sort of fluke and I bombed it. But should I wait even longer, until I know that I qualified for the scholarship (which I’m pretty sure happens in April)? Is there any harm in sending it as soon as I know what I got? I mean SAT scores only become relevant for the scholarship when narrowing down semifinalists to finalists. That’s not gonna be for a while.</p>
<p>@ckoepp127 I’m in the exact same situation as you. From what I know, this SAT should be ok for the cutoff (minimum of 1960). I would send it to them with your NM Finalist Application, so they receive everything at one time, because you don’t want to send it early and then for some reason not make semifinalist. That’s just my two cents though :D!</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. Can you send SAT scores whenever? Like, (hypothetically) could I still send this SAT score to colleges/scholarship programs a year from now?</p>
<p>You can send official score reports whenever you want to. You will be charged ~$11 if I remember correctly. </p>
<p>Great. Thank you so much. And yea it is around $11.</p>