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Get Into College - 2008
August 2007
by Charlene Dy
It's time pressured. But you can score high if you follow basic advice from the experts on the test's newest section. ...
"A student of mine went in there and wrote two thirds of a page - and they give you two whole pages to fill," says Ned Johnson, founder of PrepMatters, a consulting firm near Washington, D.C. "He got clobbered." Although studies have shown there's a positive correlation between essay length and essay score, don't assume that longer is better. Johnson adds, "It's not that the essays got higher scores because they were longer. It's that the essays were better. They were longer because people were producing a lot of words about a subject they were confident about." ...
August 2007
by Charlene Dy
It's time pressured. But you can score high if you follow basic advice from the experts on the test's newest section. ...
"A student of mine went in there and wrote two thirds of a page - and they give you two whole pages to fill," says Ned Johnson, founder of PrepMatters, a consulting firm near Washington, D.C. "He got clobbered." Although studies have shown there's a positive correlation between essay length and essay score, don't assume that longer is better. Johnson adds, "It's not that the essays got higher scores because they were longer. It's that the essays were better. They were longer because people were producing a lot of words about a subject they were confident about." ...
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