SAT Essay Prompts (October 2012 - June 2013 ).
January 2012. If you took the January 2012 SAT, you would have been given one of the essay prompts below: Prompt 1. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Most people tend to trust others too readily.
Every writing teacher is familiar with that complaint, so here’s a list of writing prompts designed to give students something to write about. They all require some self-reflection, maybe a little soul-searching.
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The new SAT Essay Prompts are longer and more challenging than before. You are now asked to read a persuasive passage and analyze the author’s argument. You must explain how the author builds this argument with evidence, reasoning, and other persuasive elements. The passage will be from a published article that was written for a broad audience.
SAT Rescheduled for November 17, 2012 November 6th, 2012 For those students who were expecting to take the SAT last weekend, it has been rescheduled for November 17, 2012, giving students affected by Hurricane Sandy some needed recovery time.
SAT Essay Subjects. On the essay section of the SAT, you will read a written passage and write an essay about it. The writing prompt on the essay section is always the same, but the written.
These essays may misunderstand the prompt, misread the passage, fail to analyze the strategies Kennedy uses, or substitute a simpler task by responding to the prompt tangentially with unrelated, inaccurate, or inappropriate explanation.