SAT Essay: Comprehensive Guide
This is a comprehensive guide to the SAT essay.
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Link to the TEMPLATE: realize, that most SAT students will be preparing for the essay during their last week of the prep. Perhaps, even during the last day. Let me know in the comments if you are. This video is created for YOU! 💌👏
After watching this video you will learn everything you need to know to create a decent essay. If you get creative, you may even get a perfect score.
Let’s begin talking about the placement of the essay in the exam. It’s last! It’s after an exhausting myriad of multiple choice questions. Now you want me to be creative for the last 50 minutes? Right... No matter how intelligent you are, your cognitive power gets depleted and unless you’ve practiced writing the essay many times and it has become second nature ( which is obviously not our case here) you will struggle. You need a formula.
I’ll give it to you, so stay tuned until the end of the video.
✍️What the prompt?
Not a creative essay - good news. Nothing to create, no facts to recall. You will be asked to read a paragraph and analyze the author’s craft. This is different from what you usually do in school. The type of this analysis is called - rhetorical. Make sure you know how to spell rhetorical. Thanks to Old English, there is an h there, after r. Don’t get me started.
Basically, in that passage, the author will be arguing a point. For example American should reduce their use of AC, we should preserve natural darkness in the world, young people should get ample exposure to technology, American young people read less and that leads to negative consequences. Stuff like that. It doesn’t matter if you agree with the author or no. It’s immaterial because you are not expressing your opinion anyway. Your job is to read this paragraph like a literature professor and analyze its persuasive devices and how they make the argument more convincing. More on that later.
What’s important about this section is:
Do NOT express your opinion about the issue discussed,
Do NOT read the prompt. It will be the same.
How is it scored?
2 graders - objective - 3 categories (RAW)
Each category can give you 4 points from both graders - 8 is your max
8/8/8 is the absolute best here.
How should I spend my 50 minutes?
First, look at the end of the paragraph and spot the place where they give away the main argument. With that in mind, read through the passage, highlighting rhetorical devices.
My students often fall into two camps: Some find too many devices and can’t narrow it to 3 and others can’t find more than one or two. I will cover the main 10 devices later.
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