{"id":128,"date":"2006-09-03T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-09-04T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T04:25:06","slug":"keys-to-the-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Keys to the SAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of students hitting the coveted perfect score on the SAT has plummeted (1,000 last year; 238 this year) after the addition of an essay to the college entrance exam, according to the <a title=\"New York Times\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/03\/weekinreview\/03lewin.html?_r=2&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=login&#038;ref=education&#038;adxnnlx=1157300421-MkKmjT+4ZAwDzxDFutTmUg\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that student writing has declined, although I&#8217;m not sure anyone has pinpointed any one major cause. But for students preparing for this test, below are three keys to a better score:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longer essays (two pages is the limit) tend to receive higher scores;<\/li>\n<li>Penmanship counts: essays written in cursive received slightly higher scores;<\/li>\n<li>Write in third-person: the lowest performing students almost always write in first person, and first person essays score lower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speculating on the cause of less-developed writing abilities leads one to wonder about the changes in curriculum: has the material covered in K-12 indeed been added to so often, that it is now &#8220;a mile wide and an inch deep?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the essay is only about one-fourth of the writing score; performing well on the 49 grammar and usage questions is critical.  For any student preparing for this test, the Harbrace College Handbook is still considered the ultimate authority on mastering the written word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of students hitting the coveted perfect score on the SAT has plummeted (1,000 last year; 238 this year) after the addition of an essay to the college entrance exam, according to the New York Times. It&#8217;s no secret &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}