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March 2005 – SAT Essay Prompt
March 2005 - SAT Essay Prompt
If you took the March 2005 SAT Reasoning Test, you would have been given one of the essay prompts below:
Prompt 1
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the
Assignment:
below. Given the importance of human creativity, one would think it should have a high priority among our concerns. But if we look at the reality, we see a different picture. Basic scientific research is minimized in favor of immediate practical applications. The arts are increasingly seen as dispensable luxuries. Yet as competition heats up around the globe, exactly the opposite strategy is needed. Adapted from Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
Assignment:
Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today?
