English 12 AP

[STD_Sappy]

Originally Posted by Iam90

i applied no standard structures or no real "structure" per se at all to my SAT essay and got 12 (on the actual SAT, not a practice)

really, you can either write well or not; that's not to say it isn't possible to improve the quality of your writing but it's a skill that is MUCH more slowly learned than others, and generally, those who will score highly on the SAT essay have a more intuitive ability to write well than those who do not; same with the AP essays.

what i'm trying to say is that it's MUCH more beneficial to study for portions of the test that are more within your control; learn the pattern behind the college-board style of analyzing literature using rhetorical devices, etc

well, it was my first sit with no practice at all. i was pretty happy with the score i got, considering my planning time to writing time ratio was very bad. and also, if you're saying that taking an SAT reasoning test will determine how intuitive you are in terms of writing and/or reasoning, then you are very mistaken. that test is designed to basically see how far you can go before getting tricked. so i don't agree with you on that one.

a timed essay only reflects what you can do at an improvisational level (considering you don't know what the prompt is and have ~25 minutes to complete.) what if one can't work under pressure such as the pressures that the SAT is associated with, but at the same time, can write a very well written essay in a week, or even two? are you to assume that that writer is not intuitive because of these restrictions? just trying to see what you're getting at.

-sappy.