<p>In almost all the SAT prep. books, the essays of score 6 use a lot of narration. However, now we are writing an essay to support our opinion. I don’t feel an essay in which half of it is narration is persuvative enough. For example, some writers try to use the novel they have read as their evidences to support their opinion. However, throughout the essay, it is narrative with few analysis. But the prep. book shows it scores 6. Many writers have only one kind of evidence, which is their own short story. They narrate it throughout the essay with a few analysis. The score is 6. How is possible for their own story to be very persuvasive and get a high score? So, how is essay scored?</p>
<p>I got a 10 and a 12 writing narrative essays. As long as your essays are good, and you stick to the subject it should be alright.</p>
<p>It’s all about how you write, not what you write about. Content has little to no meaning on the SAT essay. For the heroes prompt last June, I wrote about Captain America and little British kids. A friend of mine quoted Pirates of Penzance. My friend’s example is clearly more tasteful and definitely has more merit, but I ended up scoring higher on the essay (which is funny because he’s a darn good writer…and his MC is terrific). Don’t think too hard on what to write about. Just write…Avoid basic grammatical mistakes, and include some colorful vocabulary. </p>
<p>With that being said, can people who scored 11s and 12s explain how us mere mortals can score that well?</p>
<p>If anything, write long. Longer essays have a better chance of scoring higher. I quote Wikipedia, “In 2005, MIT professor Les Perelman plotted essay length versus essay score on the new SAT from released essays and found a high correlation between them. After studying 23 graded essays he found that the longer the essay was, the higher the score. He also discovered that several of these essays were full of factual errors. However, the official SAT guide for scorers state that the essays should be scored according to their quality of writing and not factual accuracy.”</p>
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<p>Haha, I scored a 11 and I am a mere mortal. I got a 9 on the SAT the first time and then the second setting I got a 11. I’m surprised because I really didn’t prepare for the essay the second time, I did alot more preparation for the first setting. But what I did differently was on the second SAT, I began the essay with a quote. And I used one historical and one literary example. On the first SAT, I kinda just rambled on in my introduction and I used one literary example and one personal example.</p>