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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is a current APEX student, junior year. The test is highly competitive, recently the number of slots increased from 50-55 to 80ish. The essay topic is given at the time of testing. As per my understanding the student is evaluated for how much analytical thinking and technical information is applied while writing the essay. This plus grades and recommendations are considered for selection.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks.
So, it's an essay on a real-life topic where you have to take and defend a position, and draw on your own knowledge?
As opposed to, say, a narrative?
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Kind of right, for example, the essay could be to analyze the speech of a leader- say e. g. Martin Luther King’s Speech or some noble laureate’s speech. [/quote]

So, from what I understand from last night and from what PP has said, the student will need to read something and then provide analysis that shows critical thinking and links back to the text.  The student will not need to bring in other content-based knowledge, but will need to know how to critically analyze a piece of writing and support their analysis with reference to the text.  If they fail to provide concrete examples from text, that will ding them.  If they fail to "go deep" with their analysis, that will ding them.  If their writing mechanics and structure (i.e. no thesis sentence, writing is stream of consciousness) are awful, that will ding them (though I doubt small grammar and spelling errors will ding too much given the timed nature of the exam).  [/quote]

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