<p>Greek one – delete it.</p>
<p>does anyone know the exact wording of the question with teeming and the one with aspirin? thanks! (i believe both were NE…)</p>
<p>So can we get a list of questions that have a consensus on them?</p>
<p>It was like: Teeming with all sorts of fish, the clear waters of the ocean are a paradise for divers.</p>
<p>Anyone else got an experimental writing section? I did, and I want to find out whether it was the 1st one or the 2nd one.</p>
<p>@chachaseeds it was the asian one</p>
<p>@ JuanitaRebel</p>
<p>hey Juanita how was your essays thesis/ main point worded?
was it almost just like mine?</p>
<p>The teeming… fish one was NE.</p>
<p>Im new to college confidential and don’t know if Im replying right, but everyone at my test center, including myself interpreted the prompt the same way as SwedishM8. The prompt said something like" does progress or improvement usually involve drawbacks or setbacks".
It seemed like the prompt wanted you to focus on drawbacks in my opinion. I mentioned the progress/improvement, but mainly focused my essay on the pitfalls/potential consequences. I’ve had a similarly worded essay for a practice test and they wanted you to talk about the negatives. I talked about Mao’s Cultural Revolution and a personal example that was actually not made up and allowed me some room to flex my vocabulary skills a little. My friend talked about the industrial revolution and he too focused on the negatives. In my opinion the prompt’s message could be construed to mean 2 things.</p>
<p>surprisingly, I actually don’t really remember asians being in there… I believe asians were in the 1st one?</p>
<p>@juanita</p>
<p>so you pretty much talked about how the preceding NEGATIVE brought forth the beneficial progress (POSITIVE)</p>
<p>rather than saying the improvement led to the major problem? right?</p>
<p>@swedishm8</p>
<p>Frankly I think most people are reading into the prompt a little too much. I went back and read some posts and most people cited the “blurb” and the definition of the word “involved” as grounds for a off-topic essay.
- Although the blurb can give you ideas and direction, it by no means is absolute or binding in any way, its simply there to give you ideas and a general direction. Admittedly I skimmed the blurb so I MIGHT be missing something, but i doubt it.
- Secondly, the SAT writes the prompts so the average student can easily understand it. I think “involved” means quite literally what most people who look at it assume.</p>
<p>Im not saying my interpretation is necessarily correct(I could be wrong), but from what Ive heard from people around me, they focused on the negatives and only mentioned the positives.</p>
<p>If you consider the prompt one can see 2 apparent, yet different, questions posed.
Either way, if your a strong writer and it looks like you were trying to answer the question you thought you saw, Im positive that you will get at least a 10.</p>
<p>Do you think its fine if I answered “Should people be suspicious of those who seem to be trustworthy?” with no because Tom was right to trust Atticus in TKAM, FDR helped the US through his 4 terms as presidents and Bill + Melinda Gates gave selflessly? I wrote about how none of these people had selfish motives…I don’t know if it answers the prompt though :/</p>
<p>Hmm, could we get an updated list of the MC questions that we’ve mostly been able to determine answers to?</p>
<p>@swedishm8</p>
<p>Could you state your thesis/ give me a rough idea of your essay. From the posts earlier I read I may be confused on what you actually wrote.</p>
<p>I personally see a number of ways to approach the topic and still be addressing the prompt.</p>
<p>@Juanita</p>
<p>can you post ur exact thesis?
i just needto confirm… cuz lots of ppl have been claiming I messed up</p>
<p>Swedish, you’re fine(: Don’t worry so much - you can interpret the essay pretty freely, and you definitely did not go too off-topic.</p>
<p>does anyone remember the exact wording of the writing question with Aspirin? (I think it was NE, but I don’t remember the question :/)</p>
<p>I went back and read what you wrote and I misinterpreted what you were saying :C
I said progress/improvement can come at a price and often cause problems in other areas. However, one of my paragraphs was kind of like yours. I talked about Mao’s Cultural revolution and how he needed to purge his ranks and subject the country to chaos in order to have progress. </p>
<p>But AngelofSpeed is right, you can interpret the essay rather freely. You didn’t digress from the main topic so Im sure your fine. I was considering interpreting the essay like what you did but changed my mind, yours actually might be more connected to the prompt than mine. I keep debating it in my mind.</p>
<p>@ JuanitaRebel</p>
<p>here is rough sketch of my thesis:</p>
<p>Improvement does involve problems because only from major setbacks and problems can we progress and adapt for the better into the future</p>
<p>I talked about how the setbacks Russia sustained during WW1 turned into a poverty- rich society and destroyed econ, which allowed Lenin to gain popularity and form the communist regime which brought relief and economic equality to all (setback -> improvement)</p>