As most of you know by now, the sat essay is no cake walk, and requires thinking maturely, and worldy in just a short period of time. Most of you have probably checked out the thread for getting a 12 in just 10 days, well, here's how i got my 12 in just 2 days plus, i'm tired of explaining how i did it on every grade my essay forum. As a whole, with all its components looming before you, it seems like a huge task. But when you break it down, when you separate all the tentacles, it really is not all that scary. Most people have no idea how to write more than 1.5 pages if you want a 12, you need to write at least that much in that short time they give you, but to do this, it's very simple.

The sat essay is not about thinking of examples that are correct, it is about coming up with examples that are persuasive. Instead of memorizing 20+ examples in depth, you only have to memorize a modicum of information but we'll get to that. What i did was use real life events as background and then focus in on a fake person.

For example, you could use a real war as background, and then focus in onto a general, who is fake, which could be molded into any topic that the sat throws at you. So now, instead of memorizing a ton of information about history, you only have to know the basic details of the war. This first example is from an essay on the june sat which scored an 8: topic: do people need to know the source of any information before they use it. Another reason is that some professions demand it's workers are constantly updated with the latest discoveries and information, thus being exposed to erroneous and unreliable information could drive the worker into making several mistakes, and quite possibly leading to the injuries and deaths of consumers especially in fields such as engineering. Thus it's necessary that one makes sure of the credibility of writers and their sources. Here's the example i created in just under 3 minutes: checking where information on the internet comes from is very impotant for all aspects of life. For example, joe cullen, a structural engineer who specialized in bridges caused the deaths of 22 people, just because he failed to check the source that his information on the internet came from.

Joe was on a strict budget for an upcoming bridge project, and so, quickly searched the internet for a cheap source of steel. He found one, and bought it without checking the credentials from where the steel was actually coming from. It turns out that the steel was made cheaply, and was too weak to support the bridge. I say that that could be true, but that one format in particular gets the most 12s. You start with an introduction paragraph, then 3 examples for the body paragraphs, and then finally a conclusion.

It does not need to be long, and it should just be a general statement about the prompt, that you will not mention further in your essay. Body paragraphs it's good to use 2 fake examples from history, along with 1 literature example sandwhiched between them, so it's good to go over the synopsis of a couple good books before the sat: start with a transition into the example. Then go into the basic details of the event where it occurred/ who was involved, etc. Then focus in on your specific person who you will mold to the topic, and explain what happened to the person. Finally, relate it to your thesis this could actually be done in the middle of the paragraph too, before you focus on the person. The conclusion is the part you should focus on the least, and only really needs to be 2 or 3 sentences that just sums up what you were talking about throughout the essay, and relate all your examples to your thesis one last time. You can easily identify all the parts of my format throughout the essay: prompt: is it a disadvantage to pay attention to details? details are what make up life.

Life is not just sixty or eighty years when one gets by only paying attention to the main idea of everything. If that were true, then every person in the world would be seen as just a person the little details would not matter the intelligence, the look, the hair color all the details that make up who a person is. So, the question, is it a disadvantage to pay attention to details? is fallacious. In other words, paying attention to details is an important part in life, whether making an easy decision, or the most trivial.

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The first case where paying attention to details proves to be an advantage is in the chinese battle of penghu, in the middle of the 19th century. At the time, the king got into a horrible dispute with the leader of taiwan, in which no discussion or treaty could solve. So, the king declared war, sending admiral shi lang with 100,0 men and 600 warships to attack taiwan. One of the generals of the split up troops, jiang tzu, played a large role in the decisive victory that later occurred, all by paying attention to details. As he was in taiwan, he noticed weird occurrences one man in his troops did not quite add up, and after looking at the details, he found him to be a traitor, and so, capture d him, found out where the enemy was, attacked, and won the battle of penghu. The next occurrence where details play a large role is in the jungle by upton sinclair. In it, jurghis, his wife, ona, and her family travel from lithuania to america to experience the american dream, but because they did not pay attention to the details, they soon found out it was the american nightmare.

At the beginning, jurghis, with the pittance of money he had left, buys a house with a mortgage of $12 a month. But because he did not pay attention to the little details in the deed, he soon found out he owed interest, insurance, and other cots, the money for which he did not have. The family was soon evicted, one family member left, ona and her baby died, and the others dispersed throughout chicago, leaving jurghis to become a criminal.

Finally, the little details played a large role in the life of donald cullen, a wealthy and munificent stock broker of the 1920s. His life was good he made tons of money, and even gave a lot to charity but then, as the '30s approached, he noticed the little details, like how many people were buying on a low margin and could easily become in debt, and also how joe kennedy ,one accused of insider trading, pulled his money. Just by following all that i've stated above, you can get a high score, but if you really want that 12, there are a couple of key things that must be done. 1 vocabulary you do not need to fill the whole essay with amazing vocabulary, but instead, just include a couple key words throughout the essay that show you know what they mean. It's not just good enough to use examples from different times and places, but also, to use examples that prove your point in different ways. For example, in my essay, i use two examples that show how it's good if you do pay attention to details, but then i also use an example which shows why it is so bad if you do not pay attention to details. By using examples that prove both viewpoints of the question, my essay is strengthened even more.