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Hey guys, if you wouldn't mind giving me your letter score opinion on these two essays taken from one of the AAMC practice tests, that would be great. I took the MCAT in Jan and scored an R on my essays, may have been a fluke? I don't know. I'm taking it again because my PS scores wasn't great.
Also, please don't critique based on the truthiness of my passages. These essays are about pulling stuff out of your ass anyway, right? 😀
Businesses succeed by taking advantage of consumers weaknesses.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which businesses succeed without taking advantage of the consumers weaknesses. Discuss what you think determines whether or not businesses take advantage of consumers weaknesses in order to succeed.
With the assumption that business is competition, and the main objective of the competition is to win, then of course a business may succeed by taking advantage of the consumers' weaknesses. A business should try to provide some product that a consumer is likely to want, or even need. Therefore, the business who is most capable of providing that product at a greater magnitude of importance should succeed. However, should a business gain initial capital through deception of the consumer, the business puts itself at a risk for failure.
For example, after the success of the laptop computer by providing portability to its consumers, Dell and other manufacturers developed the netbook. The netbook is essentially a smaller laptop computer with greater capacity for portability, however it is greatly defecient in computational power. Netbooks have faired well amongst college students because of their lightweight design and heavily web-based protocols. A student is now capable of carrying with them all the resources provided by the internet during a full day of instruction without the need of carrying a supplemental power supply.
However, netbooks do not provide much for a number of occupational travlers whom require significant processing power. A theoretical physicist for example, would be at a great disadvantage in buying a netbook if he or she wanted to record data projected by cosmic radiation in isolated regions of the world. In this case, the physicist is more likely to purchase a laptop capable of much greater processing power, and care less about portability, battery life, and internet capability.
Dell, in this case would be presented with two options: forfeit the customer to a competitor, or to cater to that customer's needs. In the latter case, Dell would take advantage of the physicist's weakness of needing a portable machine capable of high-output processing power by producing a machine that does so. Dell would only succeed if this new machine was economically viable. If it were not, Dell would have put themselves at a great disadvantage by producing a new product because manufacturing costs are higher than their profit from the product.
Education makes everyone equal.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which education does not make everyone equal. Discuss what you think determines whether or not education makes everyone equal.
If human quality is described by our summed abilities, then everyone who is educated to the same extend is therefore equal. Thus, equality must transverse all stages of socio-economic status, and infer something intangible. If a group automotive mechanics for example, all possessed exactly the same knowledge about automobiles, then they are all equal. It does not matter to the customer which mechanic fixes his or her car, as long as the car is fixed.
However, there may be instances where the application of the said knowledge also requires the operator to perform a task which was not learned. The ability of the operator to perform will be set in a continuum based on the best and worst performers in the respective field. One instance in which this occurs is when one goes to a massage therapist. It is assumed that all massage therapists who received their credentials are capable of performing the task as some level of competency, however if this where true then all massages would be monotonous. It then becomes the therapist's proclitive to experiment amongst clients and cater to their needs, thus separating themselves from the pool of equally capable massage therapists and seeding themselves into a standard above.
Education and equality are therefore relative. The application of education to a novel premise may separate individuals in a particular group if it requires some other ability that wasn't explicitly learned. If the ability to perform under unusual situations was part of that education, then those who are not capable of successfully executing their knowledge are also unequal. An architect who isn't capable of building a structure on a particular terrain would therefore have failed at maintaining equality amongst other architects. Equality can then only refer to a group of individuals who are equally capable of executing their knowledge.
Also, please don't critique based on the truthiness of my passages. These essays are about pulling stuff out of your ass anyway, right? 😀
Businesses succeed by taking advantage of consumers weaknesses.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which businesses succeed without taking advantage of the consumers weaknesses. Discuss what you think determines whether or not businesses take advantage of consumers weaknesses in order to succeed.
With the assumption that business is competition, and the main objective of the competition is to win, then of course a business may succeed by taking advantage of the consumers' weaknesses. A business should try to provide some product that a consumer is likely to want, or even need. Therefore, the business who is most capable of providing that product at a greater magnitude of importance should succeed. However, should a business gain initial capital through deception of the consumer, the business puts itself at a risk for failure.
For example, after the success of the laptop computer by providing portability to its consumers, Dell and other manufacturers developed the netbook. The netbook is essentially a smaller laptop computer with greater capacity for portability, however it is greatly defecient in computational power. Netbooks have faired well amongst college students because of their lightweight design and heavily web-based protocols. A student is now capable of carrying with them all the resources provided by the internet during a full day of instruction without the need of carrying a supplemental power supply.
However, netbooks do not provide much for a number of occupational travlers whom require significant processing power. A theoretical physicist for example, would be at a great disadvantage in buying a netbook if he or she wanted to record data projected by cosmic radiation in isolated regions of the world. In this case, the physicist is more likely to purchase a laptop capable of much greater processing power, and care less about portability, battery life, and internet capability.
Dell, in this case would be presented with two options: forfeit the customer to a competitor, or to cater to that customer's needs. In the latter case, Dell would take advantage of the physicist's weakness of needing a portable machine capable of high-output processing power by producing a machine that does so. Dell would only succeed if this new machine was economically viable. If it were not, Dell would have put themselves at a great disadvantage by producing a new product because manufacturing costs are higher than their profit from the product.
Education makes everyone equal.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which education does not make everyone equal. Discuss what you think determines whether or not education makes everyone equal.
If human quality is described by our summed abilities, then everyone who is educated to the same extend is therefore equal. Thus, equality must transverse all stages of socio-economic status, and infer something intangible. If a group automotive mechanics for example, all possessed exactly the same knowledge about automobiles, then they are all equal. It does not matter to the customer which mechanic fixes his or her car, as long as the car is fixed.
However, there may be instances where the application of the said knowledge also requires the operator to perform a task which was not learned. The ability of the operator to perform will be set in a continuum based on the best and worst performers in the respective field. One instance in which this occurs is when one goes to a massage therapist. It is assumed that all massage therapists who received their credentials are capable of performing the task as some level of competency, however if this where true then all massages would be monotonous. It then becomes the therapist's proclitive to experiment amongst clients and cater to their needs, thus separating themselves from the pool of equally capable massage therapists and seeding themselves into a standard above.
Education and equality are therefore relative. The application of education to a novel premise may separate individuals in a particular group if it requires some other ability that wasn't explicitly learned. If the ability to perform under unusual situations was part of that education, then those who are not capable of successfully executing their knowledge are also unequal. An architect who isn't capable of building a structure on a particular terrain would therefore have failed at maintaining equality amongst other architects. Equality can then only refer to a group of individuals who are equally capable of executing their knowledge.
