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Speed vs Legibility
lozil:
Yeah, my history ext teacher said we should be getting out 1700-2000 words in an hour (per essay)!! :-\ No idea how I'm gonna achieve that
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: lozil on September 19, 2016, 09:36:39 pm ---Yeah, my history ext teacher said we should be getting out 1700-2000 words in an hour (per essay)!! :-\ No idea how I'm gonna achieve that
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I am sorry, but I think that's horrifically excessive. 2000 -> That's more than a word every two seconds! I could never do that, and I don't know anyone that could. At least, you could never do it without memorising the essay. I'd love to see a 2000 word essay written on the spot in an hour, ahaha ;D
I don't know about History Extension, but in my essay subjects I probably got about 1400 words done in an hour (non-memorised), about 2700 words in two hours anyway (that's about where my Paper 2 essay totals were at from memory). 2000 words in an hour seems way beyond scope in my eyes :P
RuiAce:
Extension essays go for 60 minutes, not 40.
But 2000 is still too much. A "reasonable extremity" in my opinion would probably be 1500 yeah :P
ssarahj:
--- Quote from: RuiAce on September 19, 2016, 11:02:52 pm ---Extension essays go for 60 minutes, not 40.
But 2000 is still too much. A "reasonable extremity" in my opinion would probably be 1500 yeah :P
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Yeah I'd agree with Rui here, around 1500 seems reasonable in an hour if you are extremely well-prepared, a fast writer who memorises could possibly come up with more. In saying that however, there are a lot of students I know who do exceptionally well writing much less, its about quality over quantity!
lozil:
--- Quote from: jamonwindeyer on September 19, 2016, 10:55:50 pm ---I am sorry, but I think that's horrifically excessive. 2000 -> That's more than a word every two seconds! I could never do that, and I don't know anyone that could. At least, you could never do it without memorising the essay. I'd love to see a 2000 word essay written on the spot in an hour, ahaha ;D
I don't know about History Extension, but in my essay subjects I probably got about 1400 words done in an hour (non-memorised), about 2700 words in two hours anyway (that's about where my Paper 2 essay totals were at from memory). 2000 words in an hour seems way beyond scope in my eyes :P
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Ok, that's a relief! I thought she was being a bit ambitious... Still, so much I want to write :'(
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