SAT notes June 6, 2014

• read the prompt carefully and make sure your write on the topic given 
• essays not on the topic will receive a zero
• describe your viewpoint on the topic
• if you have trouble focusing on the main point try completing this sentence "when people finish reading my essay,I want them to understand that 
• the words you use to fill in that blank might well become part of your thesis statement
• spend a couple of minute on planning 
• use your test booklet to create a quick sentence outline    
• thesis: an attribute can be either a vice or a virtue, depending on a person's point of view
• point 1: I had always believed the perfectionism was a virtue: it was a motivator to achieve high goals, which I had done
• Point 2: Later, I discovered that others, including a teacher, perceived my perfectionism to be a vice, resulting in fatigue, stress and illness. 
• Conclusion: There is always a "however." I realized that perfectionism is neither all good nor all bad 
• you have 25 minute to write your essay 
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