<p>I wrote in complete sentences and they were basically paragraphs, but I put the letter for each thing and skipped lines in between. Will my essays get 0's because of this?</p>
<p>nope, i read on the intructions above. It said " answer the questions in the same form as the questions were written" ie. do it like
1
a
b
c
2
a
b
c</p>
<p>I did the same, but i added a topic paragraph and a concluding sentence. So its pretty much an essay. Also, the questions weren't questions at all. To make it an essay, all you have to do is omit the 1 a b c d and you have an essay. All they want is the stupid answer. Heck with an essay, you tend to go off track which will be worse off. dont stress</p>
<p>Yep, they rushed through it to finish their essay format, while we calmly went through it and thoroughly answered the question without going off topic.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter if you number the paragraphs. So long as you used complete sentences, and so long as the information was there, you'll get the points.</p>
<p>outline format is great. i guess you could add a topic and conclusion sentence if you wanted to, but it won't get you any more points. if you see the ap rubric, they grade simply off of the answer to the question, your answer, and any explanations you have.</p>
<p>i dont know whether one is supposed to answer in outline format. examples in all review books and ones shown in my class were in essay format. i dont think it really matters. just include all pertinent info in either way and u'll be fine</p>
<p>It's fine. I did it too, my teacher said that he was an AP reader for the essays once, and they just look for point point point. So they want you to write them like that. No formal thesis needed. So nice and relaxing to write like that.</p>
<p>my teacher is an AP government reader and has stated that it is PREFERRED that the essays be written in the a), b), and so on, just so the readers can see EXACTLY what the student responded. They dont care much for long essays, they just want the meat. so actually, u are BETTER OFF not writing an essay. at least thats what he told us!</p>
<p>As other members already said, it specifically said on the back of the free-response booklet to answer the questions in the same format. That means that if the question was
1. (a) blah
(b) blah
Your answer has to be
1. (a) blah blah
(b) blah blah</p>
<p>It really won't make the slightest difference. What they mean by "Don't write your essay in outline form" is "Use complete sentences and paragraphs, not sentence fragments, point form, etc." </p>
<p>So, if you write:</p>
<ol>
<li>a) Blah means blah blah blah. In context, so and so would use blah like this. Another example of blah would be blah blah.</li>
</ol>
<p>or </p>
<p>Blah means blah blah blah. In context, so and so would use blah like this. Another example of blah would be blah blah.</p>
<p>you will get the exaxt same score.</p>
<p>You will get no points if your essay is like this:</p>
<p>My review book specifically indicates not to number praragraphs, but it clearly makes absolutely no difference. On the FR booklet, when it tells you to use their format, it probably means to start a new paragraph for each section of the question, and not to mix the parts together.</p>