关于作文还是挺纳闷的,在CD最早看的GMAT搞笑扫盲里面有这么一段内容 “WhatAbout the Essay Score on the GMAT?
You will have to write two essays on the GMAT (the"Analytical Writing Section"). They will be scored on ascale of 1 to 6, and those points will not be added to your other GMATscore.
The essays are extremely simple. I teach mystudents a basic template to follow and they seem to do very well withit. They regularly score perfect 6's (the 99th percentile) just byfollowing the template.
It's been my experience, though, that your essay score ispretty much worthless, so I spend very little time on it in class. Afew years ago I asked the admissions director of a Top-5 school what she wasdoing with the essay scores. She laughed at me and said she wasn'treally using them (though that isn't what her brochures say).
I have to agree with her. The GMAT essays areridiculous. Given how well some students have done by just followinga formula, the scores seem pretty meaningless. And now the essaysare being graded by computer, making them even more worthless. Sodon't spend a lot of time studying for the AWA essays, and don't put too muchemphasis on your essay score. I can assure you the admissionscommittee won't.
A Special Note: The actual essay topics you willsee on test day are disclosed in advance! You can find a completelist of them in the current edition of The Official Guide for GMATReview.
Having the list tempts some people to try to write theiressays ahead of time. The pool of essay topics is so large, though,that it would be impossible to write an essay for each (and remember them all)before test day. Your time would be better spent studying the othersections of the GMAT.”