**OFFICIAL October SAT Writing Thread**

<p>there is nothing wrong with in the display</p>

<p>for the instruments one, I think I chose “…more than 300 years old”. I thought it was supposed to be OVER 300 years old</p>

<p>Btw for your no errors… 5/17 is only about 30%… which is a fine percentage for no errors</p>

<p>What was the answer for the very last question? WAs it B (Although…) or the E) paralellism (and xxxx-ing)</p>

<p>i used martin luther and galileo</p>

<p>what was the very last question?</p>

<p>5/18 so like 28%
it was just that on practice tests, there’s never been like 5 of them…</p>

<p>I only got like 3 no errors… how many did you guys get</p>

<p>I thought the instruments one had a sort of run-on sentence… needed a comma somewhere near “artist”… I can’t remember what it was exactly</p>

<p>For the essay I used Antigone, Revolutionary War, and Iraq war protesters. Are those good examples?</p>

<p>i whipped out Kurtz from Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, that should go in my favor.</p>

<p>mine was about deception and i used 2 personal examples, think they’ll like that? the lenth was about 1.5 pages</p>

<p>Depends on how you backed them up…</p>

<p>I used the Populist Movement, and Granger movement, and the subsequent Progressive movement as my first example, and tied in how our cutthroat competition in schools and for colleges with Paulo Freire’s banking concept of education or something lol.</p>

<p>essay readers like seeing variety in examples. so if you’re gonna stick with the formulaic five paragraph essay, make sure that your examples are varied. don’t have all three be personal anecdotes, but don’t make them all literary references either.</p>

<p>WSham0 I basically have no clue what you’re talking about…so it should definitely get you a good score, lol</p>

<p>i had two. i wrote about 1984 and charles darwin. </p>

<p>and really, two is more than enough. some guy who grades SAT essays told me he gave a 6 for an essay that had ONE body paragraph. he said it was masterfully written. really, if you can’t go into detail for all three of your choices, stick with two. you can still embellish a bit if you lack some details, and 25 minutes is sufficient to write 2 really good body paragraphs. you people that wrote three must be some heck of writers.</p>

<p>yeah mine was about Apple’s home comp market crashing in the 80’s and cold war arms race. My intro paragraph was longer than my supporting ones…</p>

<p>How about the sentence correction with the turtles section 10?</p>

<p>im still fuming about the excercise contribute one. i can’t believe i was stupid enough to not realize there was a back page. ive taken tens of practice tests. stupid me.</p>

<p>I’m with Daiikon…I used 2 examples, and I only had about 6-8 lines left at the end (significantly less than 1/2 of the last page)…2 examples is definitely sufficient if you build them up enough</p>