For me at least I like to go depth over breadth for my humanities. I tend to go with 2 - 3 paragraph essays and that has served me fine. Namely I think markers can appreciate the depth of understanding of content given how much you can integrate with a 2 - 3 paragraph structure. For my trials (CSSA) we were asked significant practices and ethical teachings in the context of Islam. I was able to give the marker a full run down on hajj and relate to bio-ethical teachings for my second paragraph and was able to secure a decent mark. Anyways yap aside all I wanted to say that go with your gut and if you know the content well enough you should be able to prosecute a strong argument.