Understanding Why You Have To Study For The SAT Essay

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The most important part of your college entrance package - when that time comes - will be your SAT score or your ACT score. If you hope to achieve success on these tests, you have to spend a lot of time studying; so if the SAT is the test you have chosen to take, hopefully you have also been spending some time studying. But even many of those who have spent a significant amount of time studying end up spending no time looking at the things they will need to know for the SAT essay. After all (many people tend to think), an essay is an essay; if the prompts for each essay on the SAT is different, what is the point of studying? But once you understand how the SAT essay works, you will actually understand how important it is that you take the time to study for it!

The SAT essays are graded by people who have been hired to grade SAT essays all day long! These people must grade each essay quickly, as they are supposed to grade a certain number per hour in order to get through the stacks and stacks of essays around them. The SAT essay graders, generally speaking, only spend about five minutes grading each essay; because of this, they must look for specific things. And what's more, the scores that different graders give the same essay must match up closely; otherwise, the essay will end up going to a master grader. It is not good for these regular graders if their essays have to go to the master grader, so they have to follow the same grading procedure as every other grader!

Because of this, it will be immensely helpful if you know what the procedure is for these SAT graders. You will be able to focus on the items that are on the graders' checklists - making sure you fulfill these items - if you know what is on the checklists. Once you do this, those who are grading your essay will be able to mark "excellent" for every area they are looking for - knowing that the other graders are doing the same.

If you have been studying for the SAT, spend some time in the "essay" section of the book you have; and if you do not yet have an SAT study book, you need to pick one up!