A Q. ab't Trials Discovery Essay Body Paragraphs (1 Viewer)

[appajuice]

Hello,

I recently did my Trials for English Advanced Paper 1. The discovery question was on how discovery is generally associated with pleasure and excitement.

Now this question was fine, but I may have done something to unnecessarily jeopardise myself but I would like to know if it is actually much of a problem. I wrote what may be considered an unfinished paragraph? As in it was just a paragraph solely for my prescribed text.

To sketch, I initially did the following structure:

Theme 1 text 1
Theme 1 RT
Theme 2 text 1
Theme 2 RT

However, when I finished the paper with 10 minutes to go, I realised I could do some more for my essay. So I ended up with the following:

Theme 1 text 1
Theme 1 RT
Theme 2 text 1
Theme 2 RT
Theme 3 text 1

So my question really is whether or not I stand to lose marks for a "cohesive, logical response" by including that fifth paragraph without an accompanying related text paragraph. I have always been under the impression that the balancing for the texts should be something like 60-40, and here that's how the maths adds up.

Thanks

 

[habiba1]

Bro chill you wouldn't lose marks. I'm struggling to finish my essays under 40 mins each and you are stressing about writing too much it fine some people tend to 70-30 and still be totally fine. (also PAPER 2 SUCKS my hand literally spasms towards the last 5-10 mins).