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Pcat disscussion
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I generally wrote essays with one intro paragraph, one conclusion paragraph, and as many body paragraphs as necessary to answer every part of the prompt that you are given.
Nope, but you do have a limited number of pages so you really need to be concise. The amount of writing space is plenty for the prompts that you will be given so it shouldn't be a problem.
I used a short intro [2-sentence] paragraph and short conclusion paragraph with 3 body paragraphs, all of which were previewed in the 2nd intro sentence. Planned it out for 5 minutes like Kaplan says. This pdf if good too:
http://www.studyguidezone.com/pdfs/pcatteststudyguide.pdf
Didn't really spell-check at all because I was still writing till about 1 minute left. Like every other section I really kept an eye on my stopwatch. Helps to bring a big eraser with you so you can wipe out a whole sentence FAST if it doesn't fit or maybe you're repeating yourself, etc. Almost ran out of paper on the 1st writing like omnione says.
Good enough for 4.0 and 4.0. If I had ANY idea what to write ahead of time I might've got a 4.5 or 5 but it was all pulled out of my butt as far as facts and opinions. Glad I took Comp2 last fall. Make sure your summary sounds like your intro but with a "so it can be seen that..." as if you proved your point. Not sure I proved any point but wrote as if i did...
http://www.studyguidezone.com/pdfs/pcatteststudyguide.pdf
Didn't really spell-check at all because I was still writing till about 1 minute left. Like every other section I really kept an eye on my stopwatch. Helps to bring a big eraser with you so you can wipe out a whole sentence FAST if it doesn't fit or maybe you're repeating yourself, etc. Almost ran out of paper on the 1st writing like omnione says.
Good enough for 4.0 and 4.0. If I had ANY idea what to write ahead of time I might've got a 4.5 or 5 but it was all pulled out of my butt as far as facts and opinions. Glad I took Comp2 last fall. Make sure your summary sounds like your intro but with a "so it can be seen that..." as if you proved your point. Not sure I proved any point but wrote as if i did...
I had forgotten how good I was at B.S.ing through essays... it did me well in high school and even though it's been, oh, 8-9 years since I had a comp class it all came rushing back. Surprising how much we can pull out of our butts, isn't it? Worked enough for a 4.0/3.5 for me and I'm satisfied with that. 🙂
