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MCAT Essay Writing Guide
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Our online MCAT Writing Sample Guide is unlike any other offered in books or on online test preparation sites. Instead of providing you with myriad examples of weak essays and only one example of a strong, 6-point essay, we provide 6 models of 6-point essays. This gives you many opportunities to learn, with the emphasis on what to do rather than what not to do.
Our MCAT essay models are accompanied by clear comments on what to do. Thus, they can be reproduced by the average student once they are studied.
Take a look at a classic MCAT writing sample prompt, and the careful instructions inserted within the essay. This is only an example of what you will receive as part of our guide.
MCAT writing sample prompt
Consider this statement:
"Technology solves many problems, but in the process often creates new ones."
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which technology has not created new problems. Discuss what you think determines when a technology's benefits outweigh its potential problems.
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A sample essay with our comments and guidelines
Our Comments and guidelines | The essay's paragraphs | | While writing the essay, remember what you need to do: Clearly explain the prompt and agree with it. |
| | first sentence effectively introduces topic | While new technological gadgets, instruments and processes are invented with the obvious, if implicit, aim of bettering our lives, technology also has its downsides. | The clear example serves to explain the prompt and to agree with it.
| If we take, for example, a single common feature of technological innovation—that it speeds up the time it takes us to do something—we'll see that the same feature, which surely sounds like a significant advantage, simultaneously has the disadvantage of accelerating our pace of life. | Notice how you take the above idea which is a general one, and you elaborate on it by adding more specific details. Do not introduce a new idea in each sentence; rather, develop the single idea that dominates the paragraph.
| A common complaint of the 21st century is that everything flies by us at a dizzying speed: the e-mail messages; the video clips; the text messages; the cell phone calls; the up-to-the-minute internet news headlines. We are deluged with a mountain of data every day, and the consequence is not that we are much better informed, but that we cannot begin to process the mountain of information; hence we cannot act. | | a second, closely related example; this technique can be used to generate more sentences in a paragraph if it is too short | In addition , the same technology which enables us ostensibly to become more efficient in that we can now perform several tasks simultaneously is turning our daily lives into a nightmare. Nothing gets done with the proper attention and we predictably feel constantly stressed | | A quick review of the paragraph will show you that you have driven home the idea that technology produces new problems; note how many problems are discussed |
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