Planning

Planning is always useful.

Brief plans are best, perhaps a spider diagram or a few sub headings to remind you of the structure of your essay.

Do not spend more than 5 or 10 minutes planning. The rest of your time should be spent answering the question.

Some students who don’t plan write a side of an essay and then decide they have no more information, so they cross that out and try another one instead. This is bad practice in an examination and wastes times and loses you marks.