It was already a bit of a game in 2005 when I took the ‘new’ SAT which included an essay component. Research from the same professor Perelman quoted in this art

It was already a bit of a game in 2005 when I took the ‘new’ SAT which included an essay component. Research from the same professor Perelman quoted in this article had shown that longer essays were graded more favorably (by overworked humans I believe), so I made sure to fill the whole space at the expense of quality writing, and got a perfect score. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-test-rewards-length-and-ignores-errors.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-te...