Linguistic analysis for acquiring fluent written and spoken English - by GrossLearning: CBEST Writing

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http://web.archive.org/web/20050214130445/http://www.csun.edu/~hflrc006/ep16et.html

Personal Essay

Scored CSU Humboldt has a graduation writing requirement, so these https://gwpe.humboldt.edu/sample-personal-experience-essays are Californian written, but not specifically for the CBEST (Here are more ideas for the personal narrative that asks me to compare my life to something that I have read.)

Anticipating topics - which to embrace and which to avoid https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/page.cfm?pageid=398&guideid=20 https://examsam.com/cbest-practice-test/

Template - outline https://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/TX01001591/Centricity/Domain/26063/Narrative%20%20Essay%20Outline-3-6-8.pdf

This has instant practice on correcting sentences, along with grammatical rationales in support of the best answer.

https://www.varsitytutors.com/sat_writing-practice-tests

This is a riff on one of the scored essays from Humboldt State.

I like tea. The best tea is from Ceylon.
There are many mountains in Ceylon.

Combining sentences: The tea that I like the best comes from the mountains in Ceylon.
More practice here: https://gato-docs.its.txstate.edu/jcr:6c3b7672-4d1e-4173-844d-93ce35cb7904/Sentence%20Combining%20Part%20One.pdf

Ideas and past essay topics:

https://uniontestprep.com/cbest/study-guide/writing/pages/1:

when the world seemed to stand still for you
consider President Kennedy's quote's and in what way it could affect you to take an action: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

JFK's speech viewable here, exemplifies antimetabole, a rhetorical device that brings the listener to a precipice of anticipation by repeating sets of words in a slightly different order.