Indenting and Skipping Lines Between Paragraphs on Essay

[kata1123]

I hear that indenting and skipping lines between paragraphs helps for the essay. How do you do it? Do you press tab before the start of a paragraph or do you press space five times.

 

I have my test on Saturday. I'm doing all I can to boost my score at this point.

[Eigen]

I can't imagine that this would have the slightest effect on your score, to be honest. 

[lyrehc]

My husband used to be an essay grader and spacing between paragraphs had absolutely zero impact on the rubric/scoring.  Essays were usually graded by at least two people (and I doubt that has changed) so I doubt anyone would use that as a scoring standard.

[themmases]

Doing this won't affect your score, except in the sense that an essay with actual paragraphs is better than one that's just one long wall of text.

 

I didn't indent my paragraphs either time I took the GRE. The essay form was a pretty no-frills text box, and tabs don't always come through properly when you submit those, so I never use them. I just inserted two page breaks so there was a blank line between paragraphs, which is pretty standard in most forms and even in many documents depending on the formatting. It's what you and I both did to compose our comments.