please grade my essay

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>prompt: Do you thinki that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are?</p>

<p>(Blue book test #7)</p>

<p>my essay:</p>

<pre><code>When i was 12, i thought i wasn’t good at anything. I liked drawing, but not good at it. My grades were not great either. So i was worried that i wouldn’t meet my parents’ expectation. However, the challenge and hard work my teacher gave to helped me to discover myself. I then knew what i was good at and what i love the most.
Few years ago, i hated school. English,math,science and history were all very hard. Also, i was more stressed due to my parents’ high expectation. Soon, my parent put me with a math tutor because they believed that i should learn high school math at age 13 and prepare for competitions. I had rigorous parents who wanted to challenge me for higher standard.
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<p>That year was very hard for me. My tutor gave me so much homework, even when i went to vacation to Europe for a week. Solving about 40 problems and sleeping at 3 AM became normal to me. Moreover, because i couldn’t catch up with my tutor, my dad “helped” me when he came from work. He mighte call it “helping” but to me it was “killing”. My dad was very impatient with me. First he was nice but when i kept making same mistakes he yelled at me. I was so scary at that age, i usally cried and hated mathematics.
However, after a year of insane and rigoruous tutoring, I felt that i could solve any math problems. The school math was very easy to me and i felt proud. Next thing i know, i started to enjoy solving hard math problems.
People might called me a math nerd, but i really enjoy it. i like the feeling when i solve a problem correctly. It makes me proud. Now, i’m planning on my career that relates to mathematics. If i hadn’t met my tutor and had challenging yeart, i would have never discovered my love for mathematics.</p>

<p>any advice??
im so nervous about SAT tomorrow…</p>

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<p>Okay, first of all, I think your essay is not bad, but it’s not that great either. </p>

<p>Don’t worry about the SAT tomorrow. The SAT is just a test of basic reading, writing, and math skills. I mean, let’s face it. By the time you get to college, you have simply got to know how to read a newspaper and understand it, how to write an essay, or at least how to write a rough draft, and how to do a few math problems. That’s what the SAT tests, or should test, at the very least.</p>

<p>Colleges just want to know that you have basic skills that are necessary in college. Show them what you’ve got! You’ve worked very hard. Don’t worry so much about your score as about doing your best.</p>

<p>Get a good night sleep, get a good breakfast, bring a snack and bring water. And bring a watch. And bring ID and your form. That’s the most important advice!</p>

<p>And relax! Pretend it’s not “OMG! It’s the big SAT monster that will come and eat me alive!!!” No, no. It’s just a test of basic skills, skills that you have, that you’ve been working at, and that you want to show off (come on, we all love to show off every now and then).</p>

<p>I hope that this dose of reality will help show you that the SAT isn’t to be feared; it’s just a basic test. </p>

<p>And if you don’t do well, you can always retake it! It’s like a video game where you’re Pikachu and you’re battling Squirtle and you lose but you have 5 more Pokemon in your bag so it doesn’t matter. If you play Pokemon, or used to play it, you’ll know what I mean.</p>

<p>It’s too late for me to give you tons of new advice. That will just make you really stressed and confused, which is the last thing you need. Just relax! Try to have fun! It’s really a pretty painless test, when you reflect on it.</p>

<p>And after you take the SAT, and you finally finish, go out for lunch. Whether you do well or poorly, lunch makes everything better :)</p>

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<p>^ </p>

<p>dchow, thanks for the post. :slight_smile: it’s a bit of a comfort for us frightened testtakers.</p>