The BIGGEST mistake students make on the SAT Essay

The BIGGEST mistake students make on the SAT Essay

Unfortunately, there is an easy way to lose points on the

SAT Essay by making one simple mistake that you can

only avoid when you know what it is.

What is this mistake?

It's writing an essay that's too short.

When Dr. Les Perlman analyzed SAT Essay scores he found
that the shortest essays--

--those that were 100 words or less--got the lowest
possible score of 1.

So to avoid getting such a score you must NOT write a
short essay.

So how long should your essay be to get a good score?

If you want to get the highest score of 6, your best
bet is to write an essay of 400 words or more.

Dr. Perlman's analysis found that 90% of essays 400
words or longer got the highest possible score--6.

So write a long essay if you want to get a higher
score.

Of course it does matter WHAT you write about.

After all 10% of those long essays got lower scores.