Top level sat writing is about being able to fully understand the question being asked and putting across an argument to support the opinion being presented in the essay in a quick, methodical, informative, imaginative and sensible format. The essay absolutely must be in third person and written quickly, but should be long enough to show that a clear understanding of the topic and the relevant opinion is based on personal experience, knowledge, observations or what one has read. However, there are five critical steps to getting a top level SAT essay score.

Though a student does not count paragraphs or pages, the longer the sat writing prompt is, the better, because this clearly shows that the writer has substantial evidence and examples to back up the opinion being presented. The first critical step is to organize a response in a logical order, starting with a leading or introductory paragraph that catches the SAT grader’s attention, quickly summarizes in a single sentence the theme of the essay and with a maximum of two or three more sentences, establishes the basic opinion regarding the original SAT essay questions. The second step is to use priority organization for the body of the essay, using the most important opinion response first, followed by the second and so on. The third step is use at least a few paragraphs to break down each response in turn (starting with the first), going from the most important points to be made about that response and then repeating this process for the other responses in order as they were originally presented. The fourth step is to ensure that the essay is articulate, using as many SAT words as possible, similar to what a writer would do when they use keywords for a web-based article, as this helps to show that the essay writer has some intelligence. The fourth important step is to ensure that within each response discussed that at least one or more scholarly, historical or literary examples are given, totalling at least three within the entire SAT essay. The fifth and final step is to summarize the entire essay by using the original introductory paragraph as a guideline for the order of the conclusions and to summarize each response in order with at least one sentence, but making the final sentence give a summarized conclusion about the original SAT essay question.

Writing sat writing are not difficult if these steps are taken and the student has a clear understanding of their own opinion on the topic being discussed. By using careful mental planning, it is possible to use these five steps to achieve top level SAT graded scores for an SAT essay.