A big complaint about essays: “Essays are so freaking subjective!”
Sure, the MBE is more “objective.” There’s only one right answer on the MBE.
But it depends on your interpretation of the question, the hypo, and most important, the answer choices. Yes because X? Yes because Y? Where’s the option for “yes because Z”? FML!
That’s a question for another day.
This is to say, let’s not agonize too much over the essays just because the MBE has objective answer choices and you think that’s somehow advantageous.
Let’s instead use the subjectivity of essays to your advantage. We’re going to take advantage of the impatience of a human who has thousands of shitty essays to read.
This is great because if you know how to write better on one, you’ll know how to write better on ALL of them. How many points is that worth to you?
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