<p>I got something about whether you should use feelings to make decisions, and I totally blanked out on real examples so I made up a personal experience and went into detail with it. Wrote at a solid level, but only had one example, but I think my reasoning was solid. 1 and a half pages. Didn’t have time for a “cute” conclusion line but came to a general conclusion. What kind of score range should I expect?</p>
<p>I had the prompt about listening more to our elders. Idk how i managed it…but I cited the Holocaust and the genocide in Darfur…saying something about history repeats itself and that we must listen to those with experiences. haha.</p>
<p>I got in juvenescent, avarice, and some others I forget. I apparently use a word for of juvenescent on every SAT essay. I think I used the phrase “salad days” which is from Shakespeare, so maybe it counts for something. I wanted to get in peripatetic, but that word is sort of pointless.</p>
<p>All of my examples were from Tolstoy. I meant to be more diverse, but it didn’t turn out that way. So I wrote about Nikolai Rostov in War and Peace, Kitty in Anna Karenina, and Gerasim in The Death of Ivan Illyich. But I read all of these books outside of school (no deep analysis) and I haven’t even finished War and Peace yet. I filled all but about 2 lines, so that was good. I don’t need 800, but I need above 750.</p>
<p>i had a hard time thinking of a history example so i just used 2 literary examples. i used “a thousand splendid suns” cuz i just read that like a few days ago and how laila should have listened to miriam (even though they’re only like 10 years apart at most) and not married rasheed. my other example was tony and ultima from “bless me, ultima.” hopefully these examples weren’t too obscure.</p>
<p>What the…
Did anyone get the prompt about whether people should be judged by their professions?</p>
<p>^ I got that one too, I have no idea what everyone else is talking about either XD</p>
<p>^
are you an international?</p>
<p>Yup
10char</p>
<p>Wow, maybe Goez’s theory is correct.</p>
<p>Huh, who’s Goez? And what is his/her theory?</p>
<p>Gaoez thought that internationals get different prompts than US people. It seems to hold true so far.</p>
<p>Ahh, I see :)</p>
<p>Reading all these examples makes me wonder if the only way to get a 12 is to use impressive vocab and hardcore literary/ historical examples…</p>
<p>I said that Trudeau was vigilant yet ostentatious, Einstein was brilliant but cared little for his family, and talked about Darcy from P&P being cold to strangers yet welcoming to people he knows.</p>
<p>I talked about me, my chemistry teacher, and Winston from 1984 - tried to emphasize “occupation is a cover” rather than “your actions are a cover”.</p>
<p>Did you argue yes or no? I suspect most would would disagree with this prompt. It’s hard to find examples to support it.</p>
<p>I argued no - yeah, it would be really hard to agree.
I think I did a good job by APLang standards, but I don’t know what the SAT graders are looking for. From what I’ve seen in prep books, they want length, obscure vocab and “serious” examples.</p>
<p>I just used academichackers’ template. Worked out nicely.</p>
<p>What topic did the American test takers get? Internationals got one about people being defined by their professions.</p>
<p>My personal example was how I neglected to listen to my mom’s advice, didn’t take a suncap to camping, and got a severe sunburn. LOL </p>
<p>My literary example was taken from Tuesdays with Morrie - how a former student learns life lessons and the truth behind life and death and human dependency from an ill college professor. </p>
<p>I used “recalcitrant” “admonitions” “viable” “scorching” and some other words lol</p>
<p>so would teenage marriage/iraqi war be an instant red flag for examples?</p>