Essay Exam Time Management Strategy Practice

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Essay Exam Time Management Strategy Practice

Practice Exercise

Set aside 20 minutes for this exercise. Resist the urge to read ahead and think about the exercise before you're ready to complete it. When you're ready, set a timer and take the essay exam on the next page.

Stop! Don't read the prompt until you're ready to write for 20 minutes.

"Ignorance is bliss." Write an essay in which you agree or disagree with this statement. Use an example from your personal experience, current events, history, literature, or another discipline to support your point of view. Use the following space to write your answer. You may use a scrap piece of paper to formulate ideas and take notes. Do not write on any other topic; do not skip lines.

Answers

To estimate a grade for your timed essay, look at the scoring chart on below. Read your essay and evaluate it by using this special scoring system. After you assign a number for each of the categories shown on the scoring chart, average the numbers to get an overall score. A 5 is an"A," a 4 is a"B," and so on.