<p>Are you allowed to simply get to the point on the AP Government free response questions and answer the questions directly without writing bombastic introductions and etc...? I looked at the sample responses on AP Central and saw that many papers scored really low but had useless intros and conclusions. The directions never asked you to write an essay, but just to answer the question with appropriate elaboration. So does anyone know whether we can just start out by directly answering the question? Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>sometimes it is necessary to write an essay, but often it is not. If it asks you to give and support a point, use an essay format. You should use 3 examples if it doesn't specify, an intro, and a conclusion. If it asks you to interpret something or give certain facts, you can often just use bullets. The important thing is that you do EVERYTHING they ask you to do. They aren't necessarily grading you on how well you write, they're grading you on what you include.</p>
<p>I don't understand why everyone writes the intro and the conclusions though. The directions never ask you to write an essay, but simply answer the questions. Even the official grading rubric says nothing about giving points for intros and conclusions, but all the samples have them. I'm just worried that writing the intro and the conclusion will waste lots of writing time w/o earning any points. Thanks for the reply though.</p>
<p>My government teacher grades essays and he told us that you don't need an intro or conclusion.</p>