<p>Are anyone willing to read the 2 practice essays I wrote and determine what the main issues I have are? I can’t seem to break score of 9 (I let Mike from PWN The SAT grade my essays).
I will PM the essays if anyone is willing to help.</p>
<p>Anyone?
Also I have a different question.
I planned to take a full practice test every day when I have no school, but that doesn’t seem realistic. Would it be wiser to take only a couple full tests and just take 1-3 sections a day depending on how much time I have?</p>
<p>Yes, it would be wiser to take a couple full tests, and practice only a few sections a day. Taking a full test everyday would be pointless: you need to be able to have the time to look over your answers, see your mistakes, see WHY you made those mistakes, learn from them, digest it, and then take the practice test again. If you spend 4 hours everyday on redoing a test, you’re working on auto-pilot, without really learning anything. </p>
<p>Yea, I’m short on time, that’s why I wanted to do that…but
I am going to take 1-3 of the same section every day (well as long as i have time) and every 2 weeks on Saturday or Sunday I’ll take a full test, I have until October, so that means I’ll only be able to take 2-3 full tests, but being able to take smaller sections every day should be fine right? </p>
<p>Also, do you mind reading a couple SAT essays I wrote and give me advice? </p>
<p>Here are my two essays:</p>
<p>IS IT IMPORTANT TO QUESTION THE IDEAS AND DECISIONS OF PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY?
Throughout history, many authoritative leaders made controversial decisions that affected the people and the eventual prosperity or demise of a nation. Famous Chinese tyrant, Dong Zhuo, of the late Eastern Han Dynasty ruled ruthlessly against the people but the people rebelled and eventually brought peace to the land. While on the other hand, the benevolent Chinese emperor, Qian Long, of the Qing dynasty ruled the people with magnanimity, but his choice to avoid western influence ultimately forced China into a moribund state.</p>
<p>At the end of the 2nd century AD, the Eastern Han dynasty was dominated by Dong Zhuo, a ruler that controlled the child emperor and forced the government to listen and follow his orders without question. The people’s farms and houses were razed and taken away while women and children were exploited and raped. Many of the military generals under his rule eventually rebelled and destroyed his tyrannical rule by reclaiming the emperor and destroying the rebel forces. Without the rebellion, China would have been in chaos for at least another half century. It was the people that questioned injustice with justice.</p>
<p>Qing Emperor Qian Long was hailed as one of the most profound and liberal rulers ever in the history of China. Under his almost 80-year reign, the country went to war much less frequently, the taxes were reasonable, the markets and industry prospered and the population multiplied. However, Qian Long despised western countries because he thought that China under his rule was the most powerful country in the world, but he did not realize the many things his empire was lacking. Even though, China invented gunpowder, more advanced technology, especially militaristically, were being invented in Europe. This would not have been an issue of Qian Long traded China’s unique goods with countries such as Portugal, Spain or Great Britain, but Qian Long decided to close all but one foreign commerce port to other western countries, therefore limiting any innovations to arrive in China. Eventually, China’s technology become antediluvian and trade routes became useless and everything were in paucity. In this case, if the people questioned the emperor’s decision, then China could have flourished, but instead, the emperor acted on his own and ruined the country for centuries forward.</p>
<p>SHOULD PEOPLE TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT THEIR COMMUNITIES OR THE NATION IN GENERAL?
When there is a serious problem that affects a community and its inhabitants, not trying to solve the problem will lead it to become dire and eventually cause everyone to suffer. On the other hand, solving the problems we have in society will end the suffering and bring prosperity</p>
<p>There was a person that I used to know, a kid in my high school, constantly being bullied and never received any assistance. His classmates and other upperclassmen constantly bullied him for the way he looked and the clothes he wore because they were dirty. Teachers also ignored him and dismissed him many times when he tried to participate in class. Little did everyone know, his family is extremely impoverished, no clean clothes or sufficient meals on the table. Both of his parents passed away and only his disabled grandpa to take care of him. There was nothing that was on his side and his community did not care. Just months later, he committed suicide. The news made national headlines but it was too late. The damage was irreversible.</p>
<p>There are people, however, who cared about their community and fought for what was right. At my local community, there is a high school that has constantly been in the spotlight for fights and discrimination. An Asian student named Chen Wei has finally stood up against his African American class-mates who constantly beat him and his friends up for not knowing how to speak proper English. Previously, the school district did little to help this situation, but after Chen Wei’s flash mobs and organized meetings in the community with other students and staff to discuss how to stop bullying, they have finally noticed. After Chen Wei’s months of hard work to make headlines and attention to this ubiquitous issue not just in one high school, the school district finally set very stringent policies that disallow any bullying, discrimination and racism. It had to be done, but only under someone who was willing to stand up as a leader. Chen Wei took responsibility and fought against what was wrong.</p>