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The extended essay is the proving ground of A-Level. Whether it is 20, 25, or 30 marks, the long-form response is where grades are won and lost. It is also where the gap between students who have exam technique and those who do not becomes most visible.
Many students treat the essay as a sprint: start writing immediately, keep going until they run out of things to say, and hope it makes sense. The students who hit the top bands treat it as an exercise in argument construction. They plan, they structure, and they write with the mark scheme in mind.
Five minutes of planning saves you from the two most common essay failures: going off-topic and running out of structure halfway through.
A plan is not a list of everything you know about the topic. A plan is:
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