Official May Sat Prompts And Setup

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Mon, 09 May 2005 18:18:41 +0000

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May SAT Essay Prompts
If you took the SAT Reasoning Test on Saturday, May 7, 2005 or Sunday May 8, 2005, you had one of the three essay prompts below:

Prompt 1
It’s easy to see why—aside from the income it provides—having a job is so desirable in our culture. Work works for us. It structures our time and imposes a rhythm on our lives. It gets us organized into various kinds of communities and social groups. And perhaps most important, work tells us what to do every day.

Adapted from Joanne B. Ciulla, The Working Life
Assignment: Do people depend on work—whether it is a job, schoolwork, or volunteer work—to determine what their daily activities and interactions with others should be? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Prompt 2
There is no progress unless someone comes up with a new way of looking at things, of trying things that have never been done or thought of before. We cannot move forward by looking backward to old customs and past experience. There can be no advancement or improvement unless there are people who look forward in pursuit of the new and untried.

Assignment: Does progress depend on people with new ideas rather than on people whose ideas are based on the current way of doing things? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

Prompt 3
We are afraid that our cause is unjust, or that it is unclear, or that it is too insignificant to justify the horrors of a confrontation with Authority. We will endure almost any inconvenience before undertaking head-on, I’m-here-to-tell-you complaint.

Adapted from William F. Buckley, Jr., “Why Don’t We Complain?”
Assignment: Are people afraid to speak out against authority, whether the authority is an individual, a group, or a government? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

May SAT Section Order
If you took the regular version of the SAT Reasoning Test on Saturday, May 7, 2005, you had one of two section orders. Your test was organized like this:

Essay
Math
Equating (the one that doesn’t count toward your score)
Reading
Writing
Math (includes SPR questions)
Reading (includes 2 long passages)
Reading
Math
Writing
OR, like this:

Essay
Reading
Math
Equating (the one that doesn’t count toward your score)
Reading (includes 2 long passages)
Math (includes SPR questions)
Writing
Reading
Math
Writing
If you took the extended time version of the SAT Reasoning Test on Saturday, May 7, 2005, your test was organized like this:

Essay
Math
Reading
Writing
Math (includes SPR questions)
Reading (includes 2 long passages)
Reading
Math
Writing
If you took the regular version of the SAT Reasoning Test on Sunday, May 8, 2005, your test was organized like this:

Essay
Math
Equating (the one that doesn’t count toward your score)
Reading
Writing
Math (includes SPR questions)
Reading (includes 2 long passages)
Reading
Math
Writing
If you took the extended time version of the SAT Reasoning Test on Sunday, May 8, 2005, your test was organized like this:

Essay
Math
Reading
Writing
Math (includes SPR questions)
Reading (includes 2 long passages)
Reading
Math
Writing

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