Yeah I think it was a terrible addition. Best way to do it was to simply write in the 5 paragraph pattern that is expected. Even still it was subject to wildly differing results—scores were demonstrably effected by simple things like reviewers being irritated or tired that day.
If true, this could lend a lot of weight to an argument that the new writing portion of the SAT was a bad addition to the test.
Yeah I think it was a terrible addition. Best way to do it was to simply write in the 5 paragraph pattern that is expected. Even still it was subject to wildly differing results—scores were demonstrably effected by simple things like reviewers being irritated or tired that day.