Questions about SAT Writing

dchow08
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:09:03 +0000

This might help:

[SAT The Essay](College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools)

Try looking in The Official SAT Study Guide. Really, once you’ve seen 10, you pretty much know what the essay’s going to be like.

Here are a few more sample questions. They’re not exactly like CollegeBoard essay prompts, but you get the idea. If you can’t find any more very similar ones, you could find an interesting quote somewhere and write an essay about whether you agree or not.

[SparkNotes: The Essay: Practice Essay Prompts](SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides)

What makes an example strong is that it’s very well supported and is relevant to the question and clearly makes your argument more compelling. They’ll accept samples from history, literature, personal life, and other sources. What matters is that you use the example to strengthen your argument effectively.