The College Panda's SAT Essay by Nielson Phu

The College Panda's SAT Essay by Nielson Phu

Note: For the most up-to-date content, buy the print edition, which now includes perfect-scoring essays from students. The Kindle edition does not have some of these revisions yet.

This book is the only guide that gives you a proven battle-tested essay template used by a perfect scorer on the New SAT. As a teacher, I took the New SAT myself and got a 1600 to bring you these insights. This isn't just the 5-paragraph stuff that you read in every other book---I'll tell you exactly what persuasive elements to look for and how to analyze them. My high-scoring essay from the May 2016 exam is included. I share everything: what I did right as well as the subtle things I initially missed.

Here's what you'll learn inside:

• How the SAT Essay is Graded
• The 7 Things Every Perfect Essay Must Have
• All the Rhetorical and Persuasive Elements You Need to Know
• The Essay Template You Can Use to Analyze Any Prompt
• The Narrate-Explain Framework
• How to Quote
• Eight Fatal Mistakes Students Make on the Essay
• Sample Essays to Official Prompts
• Real Student Essays that got a Perfect Score

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Nielson Phu is an SAT perfect scorer, author, and teacher. He has helped hundreds of students in Boston and Hong Kong raise their results since graduating from NYU, using a unique technique that goes far beyond the basic strategies found in traditional test prep material. Despite the fact that he is now an engineer, he continues to teach through The College Panda, a comprehensive blog with over 20,000 monthly readers (https://thecollegepanda.com).