<p>I think I have a good essay, but how many points will I lose if I have no conclusion? I had a concluding sentence, but no actual paragraph. How many points? <em>crosses fingers</em></p>
<p>don’t sweat it. you’ll probably won’t get penalized for not having a complete conclusion.</p>
<p>I believe, although I could be incorrect, that if you did not even start a conclusion, the best score you can get is a 3.</p>
<p>I believe, although I could be incorrect, that worth2try is incorrect.</p>
<p>I talked to them and they said that they will grade essays on what you have! You will not lose any points unless your essay sucks</p>
<p>I never have conclusions in my essays. In the April Essay, I had an intro and two full bodies, filled up all my space, and got a 10.</p>
<p>that means the conclusion must be the difference between a 10 and a 12.</p>
<p>OR maybe he/she did not have enough examples. The recommended is 3: personal, history, literature.</p>
<p>the personal, history, literature thing is such bs. people hype up the essay for no reason. for the april sat i completely bd’ed the essay and wrote about how im amazing at life and how im an amazing person and how i never make mistakes and I got a 10.</p>
<p>iismepeter, you’re making me feel so confident about the upcoming june test… :)</p>
<p>You are judged on what you wrote, not on what you could have written.</p>
<p>This is making me feel a lot better about my May essay…</p>
<p>Thank You!</p>
<p>hehe i wrote one long body paragraph on personal experience and got a 12</p>
<p>um… yea I didn’t have a conclusion (not even a concluding sentence…) and I only had 2 examples… and I got a 10.</p>
<p>don’t worry about a conclusion, especially if it’s just summarizing. put a useful body sentence in there.</p>
<p>I did manage to get a conclusion and I used all my space… I’m worried about my examples though, they really were pretty bad.</p>
<p>we tell graders “an essay need not have formal conclusion”.
No one factor is worth any fixed amount of points.
However, you have to realize that the graders are all English teachers, so they don’t follow everything they are told.
If your conclusion actually makes a point, rather than repeats what you’ve said, it could of course earn you a higher score, since you’ve further developed your argument,and perhaps shown some “insight” (which is the key to earning a 6). Of course, that alone won’t get you a 6, but every bit helps.
The grading method is additive, giving credit for what is done well, not analytical, taking points off for minor errors.
Many 6 essays have a host of tiny little errors. As long as they don’t interfere with meaning, they do not impact your score in any way.</p>
<p>Is irrelevant, one, two, or three can get you a 6. However, development is key. If you throw three examples out there but don’t do much with them to support your thesis, then you are looking at a 4 essay, assuming you did everything else OK.
A single well-chosen example with lots of supporting details gets a 6 all the time, as long as there is a progression of ideas. That’s not the same as a plot summary, by the way;)</p>
<p>i believe that not having a conclusion can hurt your score - because it proves you weren’t oraganized enough (meaning didn’t use your time well) and so forth… u could get a max of 6 in my estimation</p>
<p>^ I ran out of room…and that’s why I did not have a conclusion.</p>