Spanish speaking questions; are there really 53 paragraphs you need to learn?

I have my speaking exam soon, and I'm trying to go through all the paragraphs. I realise there are over 53 on my masterdoc, some I need to add. Does anyone else have this many paragraphs? Is this normal? I'm memorising each paragraph by saying it out loud until it sticks

I've noticed that some questions for the paragraphs are very similar, so you can learn a few sentences for any questions asked for these. e.g on where you went last year, and adapt it whether you're talking about a classtrip or a holiday, or a festival

Sorry, I don't want to give the wrong info, but what Spanish speaking are you preparing for? Is it A-Level or GCSEs, and what exam board?

You really don't have to memorise that many paragraphs??? Just memorise a few phrases or something.

Has this worked for you? I suppose this must be the intended way of doing the exam, but we were just told to memorise the whole doc

This is AQA GCSE Spanish. I've looked online but I can't find any examples of the exam or anything. The mark scheme for speaking doesn't seem to say anything about this, unless I've looked at the wrong thing

That seems like a lot of paragraphs. I did AQA spanish GCSE (early) last year, and I got 57/60 on speaking without memorising anything - I just talked to the teacher in spanish, but I'm doing german this year and I am meant to be memorising paragraphs for that. We have 6 questions for each theme, in my class, so that's 18 total. We also made a list of all the questions we had answers to and gave it to the teacher; could you pick your best answers for each theme and ask your teacher if they'd take a list of them and only ask you some of those in the exam?