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Hi, can anyone advise how the on-spot essays are evaluated ? Are those essays considered part of the holistic application evaluation ? How much weightage do they carry ?
Not sure of the weightage but yes they are also considered during final admit decision. Two things that alums told me are important
1. Writing style should be similar to your application essays. This is to ascertain if you’ve used AI, or had someone else write your essays for you.
2. Structured written communication.
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Also, I don’t think it is to validate if we have used AI... Amit himself told that it is fine to use AI to draft your essays... The purpose of these on the spot essays to see if you can think clearly on the spot and can communicate clearly
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Also, I don’t think it is to validate if we have used AI… Amit himself told that it is fine to use AI to draft your essays… The purpose of these on the spot essays to see if you can think clearly on the spot and can communicate clearly
To be precise... to use AI to draft the essays not to borrow the content...
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Also, I don’t think it is to validate if we have used AI... Amit himself told that it is fine to use AI to draft your essays... The purpose of these on the spot essays to see if you can think clearly on the spot and can communicate clearly
Yeah true - but Amit also mentioned that using AI is okay just to draft or enhance your essay. Not make it write everything.

So there has to still be some originality in your writing style in your application essays
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> Hi, can anyone advise how the on-spot essays are evaluated ? Are those essays considered part of the holistic application evaluation ? How much weightage do they carry ?
Not sure of the weightage but yes they are also considered during final admit decision. Two things that alums told me are important
1. Writing style should be similar to your application essays. This is to ascertain if you’ve used AI, or had someone else write your essays for you.
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Yeah also. It takes a lot of work to condense sentences from original verbose language to tight
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So there has to still be some originality in your writing style in your application essays
Exactly... content and story should be yours

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I’m pretty sure some guy must’ve went ,please chat gpt,give me the most isb essay you can write,think of anything you can think off🛐
Yup, have read such essays on Reddit, where they ask to rate it
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