The BIGGEST Mistake Students Make On The SAT Essay

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And before I begin I want to congratulate you on taking the first step to getting a higher SAT Essay Score.

You’ve taken action.

And over the next 5 days I’m going to tell you exactly how to raise your SAT Essay score by knowing just a few simple tips.

So you’ll avoid costly mistakes that could lower your chances of getting into the college you want.

So let’s begin…

This is one mistake that many students make every year.

They do it because it’s easy.

They do it because they think they know enough to make it work.

They do it because they just don’t realize how SAT Essay graders will feel about it.

So what is this common mistake?

Writing about “no, no topics.”

And just what are these “no, no” topics?

First, let me tell you that the College Board denies that there are no, no topics.

However, when Adam Robinson, creator of Princeton Review, reviewed SAT Essays he found that certain topics seemed to be scored worse by some graders.

Here’s what he found:

The worst things you can write about are the same things people used to say you should never talk about in polite conversation:

Politics and Religion.

That’s right.

When you speak about politics you just never know if the teacher grading your essay will be one who agrees or strongly disagrees with your opinion.

You may think your point of view on the issue is non-partisan, but that’s not always how partisan people feel. (Partisan people have a strong adherence to a political party or political philosophy like Democrat,
Republican, Libertarian, Green etc.)

If the grader disagrees or is even offended by your opinion don’t you think this may affect your score even if the grader is trying to be objective?

The same goes for religion.

Some people in the US are highly religious and can be easily offended if you take the wrong tone about religion in your essay.

(Some atheists in the US might even object to the way you use religion as an example too.)

This is why you absolutely MUST avoid using these two topics like the plague.

There are two other topics you should avoid too:

Current Events and Personal Experience.

I talk about them in detail in my course the SAT Essay Formula and show you a strategy for how to come up with so many good examples for any topic that you won’t need to resort to these topics to fill up your essay.

To see my next report in which I reveal the second common mistake students make on the SAT Essay click on The second BIGGEST MISTAKE students make on the SAT Essay.

Rodney Daut