Seems like I pleased the e-Rater and the human raters of my essays too: just got my official report and my AWA score is 6, besides the total score I reported earlier in this forum!! I am very happy and would like to provide all help (naturally, within ethical boundaries) to anyone in this forum that seeks help. This forum has helped me a lot.
On the AWA, to all the test takers (in case you do not do this already): whenever you start writing your AWA essays, do include one or two counterarguments to your stand. I used this approach for both my essays - the Argument and Issue ones, and they worked (looking at my scores, I think so). The counterarguments should attack your assumptions that you are using to make your point. You would then use a qualifier such as a "However" or some such conjunction to counter the counter-argument. I hope you all got the drift. I am quite pleased with my overall performance, but sadly its that time of the year when the top 10 schools would have already shut their admissions windows already (heard that only the top European schools are open but I think they are not that well reputed. Is INSEAD a school at par with the top 5 US schools in terms of reputation? Can someone tell me more about this school?)
On the AWA, to all the test takers (in case you do not do this already): whenever you start writing your AWA essays, do include one or two counterarguments to your stand. I used this approach for both my essays - the Argument and Issue ones, and they worked (looking at my scores, I think so). The counterarguments should attack your assumptions that you are using to make your point. You would then use a qualifier such as a "However" or some such conjunction to counter the counter-argument. I hope you all got the drift. I am quite pleased with my overall performance, but sadly its that time of the year when the top 10 schools would have already shut their admissions windows already (heard that only the top European schools are open but I think they are not that well reputed. Is INSEAD a school at par with the top 5 US schools in terms of reputation? Can someone tell me more about this school?)
