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What is the longest work you have ever submitted (high school)?

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Bri MT:

--- Quote from: Failingvce on June 11, 2020, 10:08:50 pm ---3000+ Words in an English essay. Not sure if that’s a lot but I almost died writing it!

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Recently I had to write a 2000 word essay for my economics unit. First essay since high school and reaching 2k was definitely a struggle. On the other hand I had a project report where I was struggling so hard to stay under 2000 words. Would've loved to be able to go 3k on that.

imo it's all relative and there's no rule for what "a lot" is 

katie,rinos:
Mine is probably my History Extension major work which took almost the entire year researching and writing. My essay was 3000 words (including the synopsis) and I was incredibly proud of it!  :D

Honestly, don't think I've written much longer at uni!  I've both struggled to get to the word count and had to cut words out before.

sweetiepi:
Pretty sure I often wrote between between 800-2500 words for essays at school.

Also, if anyone's bulging eyes at some values in this thread- a lot of these appear to be the kinds of assessments that takes months and terms to procure and refine, and not just your standard English essays!

Always keep in mind that it's not always about the quantity, it's about the quality. :)

(At uni, the longest piece of work was a 23 page lab report, that had a little less than 4000 words, and took a whole semester to write!)

a weaponized ikea chair:
21,000 words. Never again.

I only ever read the entire document once. All other times I would only read certain sections. Took an hour and 20 minutes to read (with editing).

Never, ever again!

zbolland:

--- Quote from: a weaponized ikea chair on June 11, 2020, 09:03:49 pm ---What is the longest piece work you have ever submitted in high school (by word count)

Mine was a story for English in year 9 sitting at 21,000 words.

What's yours?

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A 6,500-word depth study for biology and 8,500-word mini-PIP for S&C. Never again.

To be fair, I got a great mark on both assignments. Despite that, it was utter hell writing them.

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