Realistic Essay Prompts?

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<p>My friend takes SAT prep classes at the ACI Institute in SoCal. Today, she had me read over 2 of her essays. I thought that the prompts were rather obscure and much more difficult than any real prompt.</p>

<p>Anyway, here are the 2 prompts (shortened very much and paraphrased just a bit):</p>

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<li>How is progress and control similar to the power of communication?</li>
<li>To what extent can people with disadvantages overcome their difficulties?</li>
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<p>Thoughts? Comments? Personally, I feel that if I saw essay #1 on the real SAT, I’d start crying on the spot. Essay #2, not so much, but it’d still be bad.</p>

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<p>The essay is just a drain of energy for me. If i had anything like the first prompt, I would have gotten up and left the test. Wasn’t there some thread about how to score a 12 in 10 days… referring to essays or something. I can’t find that damn thread!..</p>

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<p>Not sure about the second one, but the first one is a paraphrase of an essay prompt from a real test.</p>

<p>Source: I work at ACI and wrote the prompt in question, paraphrasing from a real test prompt.</p>