<p>The prompt was to explain your decision on whether looking at the big picture is more important than the minute details. My thesis was “It is absolutely not disadvantageous to look at the specific details,” or something similar. </p>
<p>I had writer’s block for the first ten minutes and was so screwed. I only have an opening paragraph, one body paragraph, and a closing. My supporting example was rather weak in my opinion, which was the game of Baseball. I said the goal of the sport is to earn runs, but if a team only focused on “earning runs” they would never actually win. They need to focus on the small things like hitting the ball, bunting, stealing bases, etc. All the aspects of Baseball need to be considered and evaluated in order to win the game.</p>
<p>Then I concluded, obviously. I had no time for any other supporting example, and we only had 25 minutes. Is my example solid enough?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I do not think having only one example will fare you very well - I wrote what I thought was an amazing essay in December with only two examples and got a 10. So if your example was thorough and well thought-out, I think you will probably get around a 6-8, maybe 9 if you are lucky. Good luck!</p>
<p>Damn Kitt, I definitely will not be getting that high of a score. Damn writer’s block! How much will getting…say a 5, hurt me in the Writing Section?</p>
<p>Oh… sorry! I guess I didn’t really think that one through… oops!</p>
<p>I’d say a 5 (or 6, ya never know) on your essay would mean a 730 with perfect MC. How confident were you with that part?</p>
<p>I think I did pretty good all around. I’m reading the “March 2013 SAT Discussion Thread,” and many of my answers match what they are saying. I definitely feel like I bombed the essay, though. I can write so much better. Is there a formula for calculating the score? How much influence does the essay even have?</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that the essay accounts for 30% of the total score, with the other 70% coming from MC. So all hope is not lost! :p</p>
<p>I feel ya, I bombed this essay too 
How bad would an ehh thesis, 2 examples that I’m not even sure were relevant but if they were were well-developed, and a conclusion to about 2/3s of the 2nd page be?</p>
<p>@tara</p>
<p>My essay was only 1.44 pages long at best! I wish I had your essay haha.</p>
<p>@ArchLiving</p>
<p>Yeah, I dunno why I blanked so bad at the beginning but in spite of that I was like “okay, keep writing, keep writing…” But my examples were so terrible even though my essay was a good length so I’m scared :(</p>
<p>Does anybody know what an “experimental section,” is? I see people mentioning it here, what does it mean?</p>
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<p>One section in your test is only “experimental” and is therefore not relevant to your final score. People are randomly assigned math/CR/writing experimental sections, although IIRC the “real” sections are the same for every test. </p>
<p>ie, since I got 4 CR sections, I know one of them must have been experimental. Of course, I don’t know exactly which, so I have to treat them all as if they were real.</p>
<p>Oh so there is a chance a section I did really bad on won’t even count?</p>
<p>This is illegal! O:</p>
<p>Yeah, think about if you had 2 long writings (there should only be one), 4 CRs, or 2 math grid-in sections. I know the experimental math had a question about how fast laundry could go or something.</p>
<p>I really wasn’t paying attention to that lol, I was just focused on completing the problems in front of me. </p>
<p>Also @TickGrey, what is illegal?</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>If you dig around, people are talking about which sections were experimental.</p>
<p>Are we allowed to be discussing the test on here?</p>
<p>^the mods would step in if we couldn’t, presumably…</p>