Related Clues:

• Common college admission requirement
• Certain English assignment
• School assignment, perhaps
• High-school composition
• Make an attempt
• News write-up
• Literary work
• See 22 Down
• Pundit's piece
• History homework, sometimes
• With 11-Down, blue-book exam
• The New Yorker piece
• Emersonian effort
• Test you can't really guess on
• School composition