PLN 12

We all know how important essays are for tests such as CSAP's and SAT's, but when you have to complete three of them in two hours, don't you feel a bit overwhelmed? I have read an article called "Ready, Set,Write" by T Sale who talks about making sure his/her students have enough time to complete their essays and actually make them sound good still. It is always a pain to write an essay. just hearing the word makes you groan in displeasure, but it is even worse when you don't have enough time to finish it or to actually think about it if you don't know very much on that topic.

Where else in the real world, except perhaps as a journalist, would you have to
pound out an essay in a certain amount of time with no chance to revise and
polish it?

I think this is a good point to bring up that T Sale brought up. Where would we have a timed essay in our future other in college? What job gives you only two hours to try and do your best? They would probably give you a few days to give you the time to show all of your skills to impress the "judge". Only getting a couple hours doesn't give enough time to revise and edit or to think about a plan for the essay. So should teachers change the amount of time they give their students on an essay? Or should they make them practice spitting their ideas out faster with timed essays?