TPR Writing Sample Examples

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I don't know if the other test prep companies are like this, but TPRs writing sample examples are straight ******ed.

I mean, every single one of their 5 and 6 example essays was probably written in two hours by a professional writer who spent an hour just looking up quotations and obscure examples to use. What's the deal with every single one of them being chock full of this nonsense? Nowhere are you graded on your ability to pull obscure quotations out of your ass, so why do they insist on including fifteen of them in every single "high scoring" example?

If I didn't know better, I would get the feeling that they expect me to win the Pulitzer prize if I want anything better than a Q.

Why not just use essays that develop their arguments with hypothetical situations (you know, the kind most people can actually come up with on a test) instead of a bunch of examples that 99% of test takers have never even heard of?

Maybe it's just TPR, since I just opened a Kaplan book I hadn't looked at yet and the first '6' essay actually looks like what I'm looking for.

 

[kehlsh]

I don't know if the other test prep companies are like this, but TPRs writing sample examples are straight ******ed.

I mean, every single one of their 5 and 6 example essays was probably written in two hours by a professional writer who spent an hour just looking up quotations and obscure examples to use. What's the deal with every single one of them being chock full of this nonsense? Nowhere are you graded on your ability to pull obscure quotations out of your ass, so why do they insist on including fifteen of them in every single "high scoring" example?

If I didn't know better, I would get the feeling that they expect me to win the Pulitzer prize if I want anything better than a Q.

Why not just use essays that develop their arguments with hypothetical situations (you know, the kind most people can actually come up with on a test) instead of a bunch of examples that 99% of test takers have never even heard of?

Maybe it's just TPR, since I just opened a Kaplan book I hadn't looked at yet and the first '6' essay actually looks like what I'm looking for.

Writing score means **** unless you get like L.

Don't pay much attention to it.

 

[SS01]

I know what you mean. I studied using TPR strategy and went into the exam with a bunch of historical facts memorized and when I got my actual writing prompts I didn't even use them! I used hypothetical examples instead. I got a P. Dont stress about the writing sample.