I'm 2.1k words over my dissertation limit

Would i get marked a lot even though everything i've said is relevant? It doesn't say anything about it on my uni

I'm sorry, but this is total nonsense. 'most people reading them won't read the vast majority'?! What in earth are you talking about? Do you think a final year undergrad dissertation is skim-read during a lunchtime or something? Do you think that they only read a few of them, and stick a finger in the air to guess the grade for the others?

Nonsense.

I would fail a diss that was 2k over the limit, and so would everyone else in my dept.

Considering I'm the PhD student that checks through them before they're submitted and is responsible for a good few people getting high 70s, low 80s in their disses, I'm the one who knows what they're talking about.

Your abstract, introduction, methodology, conclusion and future work will be read thoroughly. The rest of it will be read fairly lightly unless the person reading it is particularly interested in a certain result.

Maybe it's not what you want to hear but it's not wrong, at least in any department I've worked at or with.

Any department which actually uses the word limit as the phrase would imply is completely stabbing themselves in the foot. In reality you will lose marks for not being concise enough, and honestly I tend to see this issue in shorter dissertations rather than longer ones because the writers are trying to get close to the limit, you won't or shouldn't get punished for writing too much. At least at any department where the academics actually care about their dissertation students. The word count out for effort/impact in is just far too variable to enforce a limit so harshly.This is a crock of crap.

Considering I'm the PhD student that checks through them before they're submitted and is responsible for a good few people getting high 70s, low 80s in their disses, I'm the one who knows what they're talking about.

Your abstract, introduction, methodology, conclusion and future work will be read thoroughly. The rest of it will be read fairly lightly unless the person reading it is particularly interested in a certain result.

Maybe it's not what you want to hear but it's not wrong, at least in any department I've worked at or with.

Any department which actually uses the word limit as the phrase would imply is completely stabbing themselves in the foot. In reality you will lose marks for not being concise enough, and honestly I tend to see this issue in shorter dissertations rather than longer ones because the writers are trying to get close to the limit, you won't or shouldn't get punished for writing too much. At least at any department where the academics actually care about their dissertation students. The word count out for effort/impact in is just far too variable to enforce a limit so harshly.

I'm sorry, but this is total nonsense. 'most people reading them won't read the vast majority'?! What in earth are you talking about? Do you think a final year undergrad dissertation is skim-read during a lunchtime or something? Do you think that they only read a few of them, and stick a finger in the air to guess the grade for the others?

I’ve tried to rate your last two comments positively using the thumbs up sign but system won’t let me rate you again. You’re talking SO much sense. Going so much over a word limit will lead to penalties and the dissertation is likely to lose a grade for being overly long. I helped a family member reduce theirs this year as they were over wordy. Theirs read beautifully but too long-winded so some of the “beautiful phrases” were cut short to remove hundreds of words. I’ll get my rewards in heaven!! Lol!! Could see a lucrative business in offering to read and edit essays and dissertations without reducing or changing the meanings of sentences. 🤣🤣