HOW TO BEAT A COM050 FINAL EXAM!!

Step 1: Read the essay. Don't take notes. Just read it.
Step 2: Contemplate the author's intention. You're doing a summary. If you don't know his / her intent, re-read it again without taking notes.
Step 3: When you're done reading, then you re-read it. Then you take notes. You need 4 ways that the author proves his / her point.
Step 4: Create an outline with the points arranged in most important to least important. These are bookended by an intro paragraph that ends in a thesis and a conclusion paragraph that begins with "it is clear to see that" in order to summarize.
Step 5: Write the paper.
Step 6. Rewrite the paper in a clearer frame of mind that comes after you put your head down and zone out.
Step 7: Zone out again and come back in a few minutes to edit the paper one last time.

All of this should take you most of the 2 hours.

Make sure your sentences are short, simple, and to the point.
Don't write everything - just the 4 more important ways that you can prove your thesis of the author's intent.
Make sure your sentences make sense and are done to the best grammatical way possible.

Make sure that you have the fact, the explanation, and the "and so" that this means to proving your whole point.

If you can do this, you should be ok.