How important is actual substance on essays?

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<p>Feeling kind of nervous with my performance on section 1 today. I'm not gonna discuss the prompt, but having never actually practiced timed essays before (big mistake) I felt extremely rushed. </p>

<p>I used an academic example citing Milton Friedman's work and one personal example, and ended up only fillling a page and a half.</p>

<p>The thing is while I was pretty coherent in what I was trying to say, I'm not sure if it was actually right, to extent the grader may flat out disagree with my viewpoints if they thought hard enough about it. </p>

<p>So I guess what i'm trying to ask, is how much of the essays grade is based on organization, then length, then substance?</p>

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<p>Length counts. Organization counts. Facts . . . not so much!</p>

<p>Nobody’s going to take the time to “think hard” about what you wrote - they just don’t have the time. And they’re not permitted to mark down for factual errors. But whatever you decided to say in your essay, you had to be consistent and coherent. If you want to argue that Mickey Mouse would have made a great president, that’s fine, so long as you find a way to support the argument.</p>