When you have to write essays in exams, time is vital. But students often make the mistake of not fully answering the question given, and so they lose marks. This is because they ignore part of the question.
Essay titles often have two parts e.g.
'How can schools make better use of IT (information technology)? Are there any drawbacks to using IT in the classroom?'
Before starting to write, you must decide how many words to give to each part. In this case you may decide that the first part (How ...) is more important and should have 60% of your answer, so the second part (Are there ...) would get 40%.
If you are writing 1,500 words the introduction and conclusion should take about 20%, which is 300 words, leaving 1,200 for the main body. The first part would then have about 700 words, and the second part 500.
If you do not organise your answer in this way you may find you have written too much for the first part, and do not have enough time to answer the second part properly.
The same principle applies to essays done for coursework: even if there is less time pressure it is still important to balance your answer in this way.
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