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2. Organising and planning: This should address your exam difficulty. Plan your essays in advance. Essentially, a form of 'rough working'. Just draw up a list of points you will cover in each section of your answer ('Introduction' will mention 1, 2, 3, body Part A will mention these three points etc.) - a very brief plan. You can do it as a list, a spider diagram... whatever you prefer. Then just follow the plan. This can apply to your projects as well. Using the three weeks example above, your plan can include what you will write on a particular day (i.e., which part of your project you will deal with).
3. Planning and using your time well: Ensure you have mastered information about your exam pattern very well. For example, if you have a 3 hour exam, and you have to answer two questions, you know that you should be spending no more than 1.5 hours on each question. Plan in such a way as to ensure that you aren't 'borrowing' time between one question and another (e.g., still working on your first question at 1 hour and 34 minutes). If you use your time well, you could easily finish both questions (producing well-written answers) within 1 hour 15 minutes, and could have a considerable amount of time to review your paper as well.