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Length of english answers

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  • 03-06-2007 5:23pm
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    sully88
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    How long are the Macbeth answers/poetry answers supposed to be?
    Mine seem to average 1000 words. Is that too long?


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    Enemy Of Fate
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    Mine are always about 2 and a quarter fullscap, with about 14 words to a line......so yeah I guess mine would work out at around 1000 words as well.Maybe a little less.Perhaps around the 950 mark.


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    sully88
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    thank for that. And would your comparative be a small bit longer as well?


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    ninebeanrows
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    Mine are are usually around 800 words yet take around 3 1/2 foolscap - 4??

    How can you get 1000 words in 2 and a quarter pages!! Your writing must be weird.


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    Enemy Of Fate
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    Well i'd usually be able to fit my comparitive answer into about 2 pages......so I guess it would be a little under 900 words.And yeah my writing is quite unusual, and hardly anyone can read it....which isn't exactly a good thing.I'm going to have to do my neatest possible writing in the exam which sucks cause it slows me down terribly.

    Although now that I think about it, although my writing is at the other end of the spectrum, how the hell do you manage to fit only 200 words into each fulscap.How many words to a line do you have on average?


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    ninebeanrows
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    Enemy Of Fate wrote:
    Well i'd usually be able to fit my comparitive answer into about 2 pages......so I guess it would be a little under 900 words.And yeah my writing is quite unusual, and hardly anyone can read it....which isn't exactly a good thing.I'm going to have to do my neatest possible writing in the exam which sucks cause it slows me down terribly.

    Although now that I think about it, although my writing is at the other end of the spectrum, how the hell do you manage to fit only 200 words into each fulscap.How many words to a line do you have on average?

    Around 7/8 i think ;)

    It's normal size, nothing large.


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    adam_ccfc
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    Macbeth around 4 pages, Comparative around the same, and Poetry around 6.

    And yes, I do know that poetry has the least marks going for it, but that's pretty irrelevant, since marks are not awarded on answer length. It's about how you best answer a question and how long that takes you.


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