SAT Essay

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<p>Hi, my brother doesn’t use College Confidential, but he wanted me to ask a question for him. He says that on the essay portion of the SAT earlier today, he made a reference to the movie District 9 except in the essay, he accidentally called it Sector 8. He says he described the movie enough that if the grader wasn’t sure what he was talking about, he could probably use the details given to figure out what he was talking about. He also said that it wasn’t the main focus of his essay but it was a decent portion of it.</p>

<p>My question is how bad do you think this will hurt his essay score (if at all)?</p>

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<p>barely, essay graders don’t grade primarily on factuality</p>

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<p>You can lie on your essay. I almost did.</p>

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<p>The graders care about the reasoning, logic, critical thinking, argument, etc. displayed in the essay, not the “facts.” You can even make up a book and talk about it. Titles most certainly don’t matter.</p>

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<p>Ok, well he will be happy then, lol. Thanks for the responses</p>