<p>So the proctor said that if we needed more room on our essay to continue onto "page 3" so I was misled and assumed there were 3 pages for the essay.... so I'm in the middle of my second example and turned to the third page to find that THERE WAS NO THIRD PAGE. I started erasing and I had 60 seconds to write a very very bad conclusion and it was obvious i ran out of time. if my examples were solid, historical examples with facts and I supported my thesis, is it impossible for me to get a double digit score because my conclusion was terrible and probably illegible?</p>
<p>I hate to say it but I don’t think that would be possible. You need to sum everything up in every essay. The fact that it’s illegible also gives a bad impression to the grader.</p>
<p>I am sorry but don’t you know there are always 2 pages for the essay, never more, never less?</p>
<p>Well, grading essays is very subjective. Maybe you’d get two readers/examiners who are lenient about conclusions. I don’t know. But, a “bad”/rushed conclusion usually indicates to them that it was not good time management and it’s the last impression that you give to them.</p>
<p>I think the most important things they look at is…
- how well you use the English language- like no grammatical or spelling errors, effective use of the language to convey your answer to the prompt
- how well the essay is developed, how the paragraphs transition or relate to each other
- how well you organized your thoughts/logic in the essay and if they can follow your thought process easily (if you have complex ideas to convey, does the writing confuse the reader with run-on sentences or is the writing insightful and guides the reader through the essay?</p>
<p>That said… if the rest of the essay is solid, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be at least a total of 10 (5 from each reader).</p>
<p>I wrote a one sentence conclusion last time and got a 10. </p>
<p>I wrote 1.9/2 pages, used 3 examples and had some higher level words (not many).</p>
<p>Using higher level vocab is not a bad thing, but it should be noted that you really can’t just sprinkle big words throughout the essay. Each word has to be used with meaning, taking connotation or denotation into consideration. This goes into the criteria of how effectively the writer uses the English language to convey his/her response to the prompt.</p>
<p>I didn’t have time to write a conclusion, so I wrote the last sentence of my last paragraph as a concluding one, and it worked out fine. It’s entirely possible to get a 12 with little to nothing in the way of a conclusion paragraph. If you nail the intro and introduce a rigorous and persuasive argument, it should be fine.</p>
<p>Also, it’s worth noting that not many people even write quickly enough to fill up a full two pages. Given beautiful language and even an average information density, you are likely to have a much more powerful essay on your hands than most of your competitors.</p>