This is the school I attend:
There should normally be a 5 per cent tolerance – no penalty being incurred for up to 5 per cent over the limit.
Thereafter 2 marks should normally be deducted for every five per cent until fifty is reached.
After fifty per cent 3 marks should normally be deducted for each additional five per cent.
So, in a 3,500-word essay, the penalty starts to apply when the actual word-count rises above 3,675 words; in a 5,000-word essay, when it rises above 5,250; and in a 10,000-word dissertation, when it rises above 10,500. Note that the word-count required on the coversheet (which will be taken as authoritative by the markers) must be made electronically.
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We have the 5% thing too - but we can have 5% plus or minus, so as long as we meet 95% of the word count, that's enough...
i am not sure i am following this.
i had a teacher who would give us page requirements and if we went one sentence onto the next page she would rip it off and throw it out. nice huh? thats what learning is about
I think it's pretty ridiculous, and probably has much more to do with the busy professors not wishing to read longer essays than it does with helping the students compose a good essay.
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