WJEC Unit 5 write up size

Hi
I am currently in my second year of A levels doing CS under WJEC. A (seemingly large) part of the course is the work for unit 5, where you have to design a digital system to replace an existing paper-based one and write up the whole process along with also implementing the system in a language of your choice.

The programming part doesn't worry me, but the write up examples my teacher has provided, seem excessively large. I merged all the parts and it runs to ~300 pages (in other words a medium sized book). This amount of work is what I would expect from a university course, not A level. It worries me since I do not think I will be able to complete such a large piece of work around my other subjects and I am amazed that it would be expected in the first place.

Is this volume of work what's expected for this unit? Or is my teacher just giving us unnecessarily large examples?

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Hi
I am currently in my second year of A levels doing CS under WJEC. A (seemingly large) part of the course is the work for unit 5, where you have to design a digital system to replace an existing paper-based one and write up the whole process along with also implementing the system in a language of your choice.
The programming part doesn't worry me, but the write up examples my teacher has provided, seem excessively large. I merged all the parts and it runs to ~300 pages (in other words a medium sized book). This amount of work is what I would expect from a university course, not A level. It worries me since I do not think I will be able to complete such a large piece of work around my other subjects and I am amazed that it would be expected in the first place.
Is this volume of work what's expected for this unit? Or is my teacher just giving us unnecessarily large examples?