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SAT Essay SmartWin International-Ivy Yang
Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on the following issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience or observations.
Official Study Guide, Second Edition
1. Isit important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of
authority?
2. Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect
their communities or the nation in general?
3. Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit?
4. Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?
5. Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame or power?
6. Can success be disastrous?
7. Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves?
8. Is the world changing for the better?
9. Do you think that ease does not challenge us and what we need adversity
to help us discover who we are?
10. Should heroes be defined as people who say that they think when we
ourselves lack the courage to say it?
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Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present?
Kaplan Test
1. Do you think that people are capable of finding happiness or are they
always searching for something beyond what they have?
2. If you want to become an expert in a certain field, do you need to have
more talent or more motivation?
3. Which do you think contributes more to personal happiness: what happens
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to you or the way you respond to what happens?
4. Do you agree with Aaron Burr that it is wisest to put things off if you can?
5. Do we ourselves cause change in our lives by making certqain decisions,
or are we acted upon by events that happen around us?
6. Is it really impossible to fail? Are some failures simply unsuccessful
attempts to accomplish what we set out to do, or do all failures ultimately provide some benefits, even if we can’t see it right away?
7. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your
attitude. Don’t complain.”Do you agree with Maya Angelou that it is pointless to complain?
8. Do you think that teaching something to another person can help you to
learn or master a subject or process?
9. Do you believe that fantasy or imagination is more important than
knowledge?
10. What is your view of the idea that every obstacle can be turned into an
opportunity?
11. “In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”Do you agree with
Water Cronkite that it is necessary to see both sides of an issue in order to discover the truth?
历年真题
1. Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject?
2. Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their
own way?
3. It is necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative
consequences for other people?
4. Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turned into something good?
5. Are we free to make our own decisions or are we limited in the choices we
can make?
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6. Would the world be a better place if everyone always told the complete
truth?
7. Does the success of a community – whether it is a class, ta team, a family,
a nation or any other group-depend upon people’s willingness to limit their personal interests?
8. Does the truth change depending on how people look at things?
9. Do people achieve more success by cooperation than by competition?
10. Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in position of
authority?
11. Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties?
12. Can deception-pretending that something is true when it is not- sometimes
have good results?
13. Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfilling or work that pays
well?
14. Is it better to change one’s attitude than to change one’s circumstances?
15. Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect
their communities of the nation in general?
16. Should modern society be criticized for being materialistic?
17. Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit?
18. Is it always best to determine one’s own views of right and wrong, or can
we benefit from following the crowd?
19. Do circumstances determine whether or not we should tell the truth?
20. Is identity something people are born with or given, or it is something
people create for themselves?
21. Can people ever be truly original?
22. Do people achieve greatness only by finding out what they are especially
good at and developing that attribute above all else?
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23. Should we admire heroes but not celebrities?
24. Is it always better to be original than to imitate or use the ideas of others?
25. Is the effort involved in pursuing any goal valuable, even if the goal is not
reached?
26. Should people always prefer new things, ideas, or values to those of the
past?
27. Is there any value for people to belong only to a group or groups with
which they have something in common?
28. Are there benefits to be gained from avoiding the use of modern
technology, even when using it would make life easier?
29. Do people place too much emphasis on winning?
30. Are people’s actions motivated primarily by a desire for power over others? 31. Do incidents from the past continue to influence the present?
32. Is compromise always the best way to resolve a conflict?
33. Are decision made quickly just as good as decisions made slowly and
carefully?
34. Can a group of people function effectively without someone being in
charge?
35. Do actions, not words, reveal a person or group’s true attitudes and
intentions?
36. Does planning interfere with creativity?
37. Do highly accomplished people achieve more than others mainly because
they expect more of themselves?
38. Should people change their decisions when circumstances change, or is it
best for them to stick with their original decisions?
39. Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course of action, or should
people give up if they are not making progress?
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