SAT writing test

An interesting take on the SAT essay test. According to the interviewee the Unabomber might have scored higher than Shakespeare, Hemingway, or some other well known writers.

Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?

Consider the following quote and its grade:
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

Reader's evaluation: Although it displays a solid vocabulary, Mr. Hemingway's essay lacks specific examples and clear topic sentences. Too undeveloped to be good. Grade: 3 out of 6

Mr. Hemmingway would surely be surprised that this text from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech would be rated so harshly.