SAT May 2009 Essay

<p>@thebigcheese121: American test takers had a prompt that asked whether we should pay more attention to older people and their experiences.</p>

<p>I think both my examples were sort of a stretch…</p>

<p>Obama/FDR new deal
and Of Mice and Men Lennie relying on George as a father figure/more experienced person because he’s an idiot.</p>

<p>On topic enough to pull an 8-10 I hope. Managed to write about 1 3/4 pages.</p>

<p>Is there any possibility of me getting a 12 with one long developed personal essay with 2 body paragraphs showing a mistake I made by listening to my peers, and then showing how I became successful by taking advantage of the experience of older people?</p>

<p>In the SAT sample book they gave a 6 to someone who just wrote one personal example, and I refuse to use history haha</p>

<p>I said yes to the prompt and used Benjamin franklin and Einstein as elders we needed to listen to.</p>

<p>I used little red riding hood as one of my examples.
As in, her mom telling her not to stray from the path, but she did anyway.
Is that fine?</p>

<p>i used
-“Tuesdays with Morrie”
-“The Alchemist”

  • personal experience</p>

<p>I wrote about my Grandpa and Yoda</p>

<p>I used three literary examples:</p>

<p>-To Kill a Mockingbird
-The Crucible
-The Things They Carried</p>

<p>I wrote about interview war veterans about water boarding
and
Companies asking old and experienced people what to do in this economic crisis because the elderly have been experienced through previous economic depressions.</p>

<p>ahaha Yoda was the first person that came to mind</p>

<p>For the essay, I used how MLK looked at Ghandi’s work in India as a template for what he could and should do in the US, and said this constitues listening to elders. The other example was Gandalf the Grey (White) in Lord of the Rings, coudn’t think of anything else b/c the fantasy novels seemd perfect for this topic. 2 pages and conclusion was about how listening to past generations has led to remarkable advances in civil rights in america and middle-earth</p>

<p>So yeah…I ran out of room for essay lol. I saw that I didnt’ have much room left after my first body paragraph so I wrote less for my other 2 bodies and then I got down to my conclusion and didn’t have room to even finish writing it. Should I contact collegeboard about this?</p>

<p>LOL, I forgot the last name of the author of Catcher in the Rye, so I wrote J.D. Salison instead of J.D. Salinger… they won’t care, right?</p>

<p>Against the majority… I put we shouldn’t pay attention to old generations.
I used how Japan has been giving up its tradition of putting more emphasis on the age than the merits… and the U.S. how it paid attention to the fresh and young generations’ creativity and aroused such innovative companies as Microsoft and Apple.</p>

<p>oh me too. i wrote about how i trusted my feelings with my examples in SAT preparation and choosing high school concentration. that must be weird do you think?</p>

<p>i think i screwed up!</p>

<p>I def. screwed up.</p>

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<p>I used just one example on the January SAT (Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Renascence,” which I know backwards and forwards). I know it wasn’t personal, but I got an 8 on that.</p>

<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 relative detail with it, but not specifics names and colors or anything. 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>idk what went wrong, it was the first time ever in my life that i didnt finish. i had to skimp out and just write a conclusion when the lady said there was five minutes left D:</p>