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Writing Essay

As was given on THE Official SAT Study Guide, the essay is now 52 lines long rather than the 44 lines that it used to be in the SAT II Writing test. 

I don't think that test graders expect longer essays now, but the same length essay could "feel" shorter than before. The longer length may be a result of the 5-minute increase for the writing section. I filled all 52 lines, and didn't rest for any long period of time or erase any significant amount, took no time to outline, and wrote at a fairly steady pace. 

I couldn't remember the boxed quotation for the test, but the Guam essay topic for the March 12 test was "Is creativity needed more than anything else in the world today?" The boxed quote referred to creativity being more beneficial to science and academia in general in the long run rather than trying to expect short-term gains with immediately applicable technologies and developments. 

I used Alfred Nobel and Thomas Edison as examples, saying that the former's creativity after observation of nitroglycerin absorbed to stability and dryness in silica gel and the latter's creative ideas for the 10 thousand distinct filaments to test accounted for the importance of creativity in general.