<p>Whatever you do in the art of BS, make your info sound as though it were real. :)</p>
<p>Hey everyone, this is one of my favorite topics! As a tutor and someone who has taken the test 6 times in the last 2 and a half years, I can unequivocally CONFIRM this answer.</p>
<p>YES! You can totally fabricate facts.</p>
<p>Here’s the trick, dates or names aren’t really important. So while you could, technically, change the date of a historical event, the most USEFUL facts to fabricate are ones that fit your thesis.</p>
<p>I will often invent quotes or poets or scholars from other countries (personal favorites include Holland and Wales so I can write a bunch of consonants - Ruud Von trantqyyst or Daffyd Af Gwynnfylld… haha) to construct a point that will help shape my essay.</p>
<p>The BEST place to fabricate facts is in your own life. I am not a high school student, nor have I been one for over a decade… however, I still FABRICATE stories about my time as ASB president or winning the state finals in track.</p>
<p>Personal experience is totally valid on the essay and it’s the BEST place to fabricate facts that suit your story, because they can NEVER find out if you lied or not. It’s perfect!</p>
<p>Remember that the SAT essay is NOT like an AP test, they don’t care if you know dates and names and events, its about constructing a good argument that is organized, thoughtful and dynamic. It’s sort of like the only essay you get to lie on and no one will ever challenge you!</p>
<p>I have made an 11 and a 12 and have also fabricated the facts to fit the topic, but I had done a number of practice essays before I took the test.</p>
<p>As long as you fill up both pages and it looks like you have 4+ paragraphs, you will definitely have a 10+.</p>
<p>I put The Hobbit as one of my examples in October SAT. I forgot what Bilbo Baggins was (which was stupid considering the title is exactly who he is) so I put that he was a tree nymph or something. Also, I put Fahrenheit 451 as another example and forgot who the fire chief was and just put “John Smith.”</p>
<p>I got a 11. 2 pages of pure BS.</p>
<p>I made up a fake study by “Dr. Kaushik Bodapati” that proved that the study of creative arts added, on average, 10 years to a person’s life. I also bent the plot of a short story to fit into the topic of the essay. I got an 11 on the essay.</p>
<p>Guys, I win.
I got a 12, where in my personal example I talked about how I flew to asia to train in the Sacred Shaolin Temple for three years, training in judo and practicing the art of mind-control under my great master Shao Jing Lao. No joke.
I always make up something outlandish for my personal example; Ive also written about how I got over the death of my parents after the nuclear reactor by my house blew up and how I learned shame by entering the girls locker by mistake, getting undressed, then turning around to find the whole girls field hockey team staring at me.</p>
<p>^That last example is golden.</p>
<p>for the oct sat i made up a book/author, scientist, and person experience…i got a 10
for march sat i made up a book/author, personal experience…i got a 10</p>
<p>I am reading all these posts and maybe because I am older, it would never have occurred to me to suggest someone outright lie and make up facts for the SAT essay. I actually think unless you are in the habit of lying (without getting caught), it would be stressful to be writing something under the pressure of the clock that I knew was blantantly untrue. To be honest, I question whether some students are just falsely bragging. </p>
<p>I think embellishing a personal experience make sense because no one will ever know if it was true or not. The articles that one person posted as proof that the content is ignored were written 5 years ago, when the SAT first started using the essay so it would be a huge asssumption to believe that they havn’t updated their guidelines since then.</p>
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<p>Honestly, I’m 15 and I would not have thought about lying on any essay up until I created a CC account. Age has virtually nothing to do with your surprise; so many of my friends (who are also teenagers) that first hear about the usefulness of lying on the essay are shocked and usually don’t believe it until I show them some of the essays posted onto CC with blatantly incorrect “facts.”</p>
<p>I think what bothers me is that people have convinced themselves that it is okay to lie because the SAT is somehow forcing them to resort to it to compete.</p>
<p>Our country is in the economic mess it is in because Wall streeters felt it was okay to lie to make money. Mortgage brokers gave loans to people who they knew didn’t qualify for them because they felt they could get away with it. Elderly people are scammed out of their life savings because they are easily convinced by con artists. Anyone can rationalize a reason to lie.</p>
<p>The irony is that the prompts for the SAT essay are all about morals, ethics, standards to live by. See all the prompts since 2005 at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/764514-sat-essay-prompt-archetypes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/764514-sat-essay-prompt-archetypes.html</a></p>
<p>If these cc students are so bright, why do they need to resort to blantant lying to get an 11 or 12? Aren’t they smart enough to be able to pull it off straightout?</p>
<p>Theoretically, what the readers of the essays look for in an essay is reasoning and critical thinking. What you know has little to do with it. If you state a false statistic that supports the prompt and question, it will not help your argument or essay score much (theoretically) because it does not display your reasoning skills. So making things up won’t help your grade much, if at all (let alone in an unfair way). So it is fine to do it. Unfortunately, by my impression graders don’t seem to look at your critical thinking as much anymore. They seem to give higher scores on the basis of length.</p>
<p>@ marist453 </p>
<p>LOL, thanks for sharing (and much thanks to everyone else too) 
It really helps</p>
<p>LOL </p>
<p>Write on the prompt: “Is deception ever justified” about the lax standards on truthfulness of the examples.</p>