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That test doesn't matter anymore... I took a practice SAT after some studying and here are the results: Math: 0 wrong CR: 0 Wrong Writing: 1 wrong ballin

and we'll say that the essay's score is a 12 !

I got everything write on all sections of the practice test I took! Except: Writing: 2 wrong Math: 3 wrong CR: 4 wrong Composite score?

I was wondering if it would look bad if I decided to retake two of my SAT Subject Tests In November, I plan to take the Spanish SAT II (which I have never taken before) along with a Physics SAT II ( I scored a 720 in 9th grade) and Math SAT II (I scored a 770) in the beginning of Junior year. I want to major in math and physics at, hopefully, an Ivy League or MIT. Do you think they would care if I retake both physics and math when I take the spanish sat II? Since I've just taken BC Calc and Physics C I feel like I'm in a better position to get double 800s. Will the colleges that I apply to see the scores from november in time? I'm pretty sure I will apply early or do early action to at least one school.

I studied vocabulary also in tenth grade, that way I was not bogged down with learning any new vocabulary in eleventh. Use http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdf as a reference or find the testtakers 700 most commonly asked words Just make sure you look up all the words you do not know on any practice tests you might take. But you'll be fine.

oh yeah and make sure your opinion is really obvious use I a lot and try to make powerful points readers do not like pussies you should be very committed in your beliefs but sometimes it is okay to qualify a statement ie sometimes war is good but othertimes it is bad

Yeah sure I can tell you how to write well. That I piece together ideas apparently superbly is an overstatement apparently because some of my ideas were hard to follow. But I know what I could have done differently. Anyway, if you want to improve how you write do the following: 1. spark notes 1000 SAT words - 100 words every week, flashcards of every word you do not know. Review the words you do not know every day. 2. Barron's writing workbook for the SAT Writing is really not so difficult as people think. Just vary sentence structure meaning 1. Start sentences with ing verbals like Basking in the sun, the roses bloomed 2. Start sentences with ed words Bothered by his little brother, jack punched his meddling brother in the kidneys. 3. Start sentences with infintives To be or not to be, that is the question 4. Inverted sentences Foul was the smell that reared forth from his rectal cavity 5. Original comparison As tough as a wrecking ball as silly as putty as reliable as a sheepdog as corrosive as boiling acid as broiling as molten lava 6. Use anecdotes in introductions 7. Use the active voice not passive voice (subject performs action) active: I het her passive: She was hit by me 8. Vary sentence length Sitting on the beach and reclining comfortably in her chair, Angelina Jolie was topless for all to see, without care for her exposure. She was reckless. 9. Vary punctuation Wow! How could she do something like that? You are a homosexual; you sleep with men. 10. Use quotations to begin or end essays when writing conclusions, bring readers up to date or poject them into the future To paraphrase an old saying, "what you don't know can't hurt you." BUT TRY TO AVOID CLICHES AND OTHER HACKNEYED EXPRESSIONS conclusions that brings reader up to date: "When the history of the twenety first century is wrtitne, let us hope that AIDS will have gone the way of the dinosaurs" (Note: some of these examples were taken from the Barron's Writing Workbook). Try to incorporate these elements in your essay. Tweak your sentence beginnings and readers will reward you. Avoid overusing big words because clearer language is better. Malapropisms (faulty use of sesquipedalians (big word)) will be counted against you if the reader spots too many.

wow, you really have EXCELLENT advice! I meant for my thesis to be how religion should have no place in government and although it wasn't clear at times, I was just trying to illustrate some areas where religion can have negative consequences. Your grammar knowledge is impressive! And because I took an AP Language class that focused on rhetoric for an entire year, my writing style has changed too. How can I go about making my examples more clear than they currently are? Do you have any suggetsions that might work well with my thesis? And lol I really did write the essay in approx 25 minutes!

lol thanks. Ok sure, if you post an essay, I'll grade it.

Suggest a score with meaningful rationale. I may decide to major in English in college so give me a worthwhile critique, so please don't waste your time and mine. The prompt: Describing his vision for the world's future, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress in 1941 that "...we look forward to a world founded upon for essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression.... The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his [or her] own way.... The third is freedom from want.... The fourth is freedom from fear." Assignment: All four freedoms are crucial in a free society. Yet, Roosevelt may be faulted for not adding a fifth, a sixth, or even more freedoms to the list. Given the opportunity to add another freedom, what would you choose? Feel free to invent a new freedom or simply pick one that already exists in the Bill of Rights or elsewhere. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your observations, experience, studies or reading. ESSAY Can we ever truly separate church and state in society? Can politics really exist outside the realm of religion? As long as religious fundamentalism proliferates, I doubt it. While freedom of the government from obstructing religion has been long sought, freedom of religion from obstructing government is far less ostensible but far more exigent. The catastrophe on September eleventh, 2001, a day the world will never forget, epitomizes the danger of the influence of fundamentalist regimes in government. Fatal are the consequences of any mass movement which advocates homicide and brutality; thus, the Taliban who exemplify such a movement should not ever rise to power or myriad lives might be devastated. How can any society function effectively when the heads of state preach murder and hatred? When religious radicalism becomes out of hand in a region and infiltrates the government, it is unlikely any progress can be made. For example, the formerly Taliban infested Iraq has been anything but productive during the last several years. Instead it is war torn and leveled in many areas. Consequently, there should be safeguards in government that can truly desist any religious minority from speaking and acting for the majority. Although religious fundamentalism may only seem to affect only foreign countries like Iraq, it is closer than people might think. During the Bush administration (lol), Conservative Christian values often influenced many political decisions. More than any other controversy, gay marriage has sparked a powder keg of political animosity and further stratified opposing political parties. Ardently opposed by Bush and his sympathizers, gay marriage is seen as immoral through the lens of the bible. As a result, gays are deprived of their right to a pursuit of happiness, which is cited by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as a fundamental, innate right. Religious principles should not dictate the decisions of political leaders not only because they often have destructive consequences but because they defy the very logic that our country espouses. So how is it possible that religion could have such a stronghold in politics! In the United States of all places, religious fervor continues to cloud the minds of those in power. Their decisions not only have political ramifications but scientific ones, too. In the field of medicine, the advent of stem cell research holds immeasurable promise but inflames much debate over its religious considerations. As piquing as a fully body rash, debates between stem cell research pundits and religious "scholars" over the extent to which scientists "play god" only waste time that could be used to save lives. But even still, Senators, Governors, Mayors, City Councilmen and representatives with any form of political power deny scientists of their much needed grants to continue research. Religion and government really only cause people to butt heads about matters that would take merely a fraction of a second to decide in a more logical body politic. Might a Senator be stricken with incurable liver cancer one day god forbid, it would be a pity for him to realize that he petered his own chances of survival when he struck down grants for stem cell researchers. It is no surprise that when religious extremists be it the Taliban or a Congressman of the Bush Administration seize power, a wake of destruction follows in their path. Freedom from religion, thus, is indescribably vital to any society. Therefore, the "United" States of America that FDR had in mind will forever be a misnomer if we continue to let religion in government tear us apart.