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AQA Spanish A2 - the writing paper...

Anyone else this stupid? I had a complete mental blank in the exam and went and forgot that there's a word limit on the paper. Does anyone know what happens if you write, say, 3 sides too many? Will they just not mark it, or will they dock a load of marks but mark the rest anyway? Just that I'm slightly panicking with results day looming ahead...

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Ronove

Ariadne

IIRC there's no word limit. They just 'suggest' that the minimum amount is 250 or 350, can't remember. And considering how little I write, I've gotten away with it on many occasions. No-one pays attention to it in my experience, you write as much as you can in as good language and with as good a structure, etc etc, as you can/need to to answer the question. The reason the word count suggestion is there is because they need a certain amount to be able to judge your command of the language, so going over it shouldn't be a problem - I wonder how many marks I've lost in the past/this time round if writing too little matters... then again I think it was only 250 per essay at A2, in which case I didn't fall short... I think...
I went into that exam thinking I would have absolutely nothing to write for the cine a partir de 1960 one... I think I was quite lucky, in that I could think of a way round it to argue a point and stuff. I don't think I've ever been more terrified... oh wait, yeah I was, in German where we didn't know the topic and again in French where we didn't know EITHER of them. I think I managed to come up with something alright in all of them though... we'll see on results day...