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Great, thanks everyone! I'll keep practicing and might come back for more questions!

Thanks for the great advice everyone, I really appreciate it. In terms of "personal examples" how would you go about using this strategy if I wanted to avoid personalizing my essay too much by using the pronoun "I"?

Hi everyone! This is my first blog post. I am currently studying for my GRE and am a bit worried about the analytical writing section. I am confident in my writing skills, especially given the time constraint, but what I am worried about is using real world examples! Some of the sample essays I have read that scored a 6 on the GRE use examples from politics and history which I have a lack of knowledge in. For example, a prompt asking the writing to take a position of leadership lead to a sample essay that looked more like a lesson on the history of American Presidents instead! Does anyone have any advice on how to approach this? I know I could look up some of the prompts on the ETS website but I really don't have time, or the cognitive effort to study numerous subjects in preparation for 1 essay. Are using hypothetical examples a valid way to support an argument on the GRE?