SAT作文的评卷人每天要阅读上百篇同一主题的文章，此时，一个先声夺人的SAT写作开头则是吸引考官继续看下去最好的方法了。那么SAT写作开头段要怎么写才能不落俗套呢？
给出背景介绍
这个介绍有一个关键的作用：从背景介绍中引出题目中的讨论（Issue），然后针对引出的Issue给出作者自己的观点（Personal Statement，或者叫做Personal Point of View）。之后，需要给考官一个关于你将如何进行自我观点的论证的线索（Plan of Development）。结构如下：
Opening Remarks (Background Description leads to issue)
Personal Point of View (Serve the issue given out by the previous step)
Plan of Development (To indicate your readers how you will demonstrate your statement)
例子型开头。
大多数学生在进行SAT写作组织的时候，往往都会采用story-based的发展方式，也就是讲故事。既然我们在论证部分会介入例子，那么在开头部分我们也可以介入例子来达到一种“螺线本”式的链接方式。这种方式可以让文章更灵活，逻辑性更好（SAT Essay考察的最为主要的内容就是学生的逻辑）。
举个例子：
Assignment: Is learning history helps to avoid its repeating at present?
开头：
When people woke up at morning of some one day in 2008, they would be in deep blue mood, especially those stock brokers, because their money had already evaporated within eight hours.
The economic crisis arrived, as the deep recession that happened seventy-two years ago has spread once again to the whole world. During the past 72 years, people have been learning the rule of how the economic world went, and tried to avoid the happening of its crisis. However, historical lesson did not teach us to stop its repeating.
Assignment: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is?
开头：
It seems that people do not have the custom to question where the food comes from and who makes it when they go into the supermarket to pick up their necessities for their daily life. It also seems that food, especially supplied by supermarket, is good, superficial at the least. However, people are cheated even since the beginning of supermarket because all of the foods are from a couple of food incorporations, where they produce food as workers produce products.
例子型开头的写法可以将Plan of Development更为具体地呈现给读者，而且可以和Body的内容进行更加紧密地关联，显示出更强的逻辑性。
例子型开头的写作主要有两种：
一种是开头中的例子仅仅是为了服务于开头而存在的，其主要的功能就是帮助考生完成开头部分的内容；
另外一种是开头中介入的例子正是Body讨论中需要用到的例子，在开头中只给出一个部分，然后在结尾(Conclusion)的时候再给出另一个部分，这种开头方法叫做“例子切分法”——一部分给开头用于引入讨论，一部分给结尾用于点题强调。
以上两种SAT作文开头的方法，希望大家根据题目的实际情况运用，以达到快速入题，引人入胜，同时增强文章逻辑性的效果。