How are the essay scored?
There are no “right” answers for each essay topic. Instead, the essays are scored on a holistic scale that is meant to measure your overall ability to write well. ETS provides a description of the essay score ramges, and provides Issue Essay Scoring Guidelines as well as Argument Essay scoring guidelines. You may use any one of a variety of strategies to structure your essays. Readers are explicitly trained to accept any strategy in an essay that meets the essential requirements of the essay task, i.e., a response that provides the information required by the essay prompt.
