If you used Clearing in 2024, how did you find it?

Epq

I was told by my supervisor that my essay shouldn’t be much more than 5000 words, that I needed lots of sources that had to be primarily academic, and that I had to evaluate all of them - I’m currently at 6000 words, with 59 sources and have started evaluating them all but I’ve seen some people getting a*s with only 20 sources where only 10 have been evaluated and with word counts as high as 12000. I don’t want to go against my supervisor as she will be marking the EPQ but I also think her guidelines are restricting my work and will be too time consuming - any advice??