My comments about writing a lot had to do with prep, not on the actual exam. The practice of prepping by constantly writing gets you into good habits on the exam, where you write “just enough.” just enough is clearly responding to the command words. You need more than a few words to “Justify” or “Explain” anything.
probably useful to keep in mind that the score matrix could be totally misleading… for example, my matrix tells me that i got somewhere between 26% and 66% on the AM section… It’s entirely possible that I got ~66% overall (scoring
All I’m trying to say is don’t be too discouraged if you have an ugly matrix.