How many words can you write in a 40min essay? (1 Viewer)

[SimonLee13]

800-900. How do you write faster =.=

 

[Just.Snaz]

Bout a 1000

 

[-may-cat-]

800-900. How do you write faster =.=

mentally yell at yourself when writing

 

[Tully B.]

1100 max, after which my hand shakes like a cat on prozac.

 

[axlenatore]

I get about 6 words a line on an A4 sheet of paper.

like 38 lines on the A4 sheets we write on

in 40/5 minutes i write something like 7-8 pages

so on average like 1500+?

in extension english and history, with an hour i can write 10 pages.

i get around 12-15 words per line minimum and i dont have small writing so yours must be huge

 

[bored of sc]

I write the most in music aural exams cause there is so much pressure for time.

 

[SimonLee13]

my best was 2000 in an hour so that's about 1500 in 40 mins. though it was for my fave subject.

How do you manage to write 1500?!?! That's almost double other people's writing speed... Btw howd you know you did 2000 in an hour? Did you type it up afterward to check?

 

[lolcal]

1000~ in english and 1400ish in economics, but my writing gets messy as fuck.

 

[lyounamu]

How do you manage to write 1500?!?! That's almost double other people's writing speed... Btw howd you know you did 2000 in an hour? Did you type it up afterward to check?

Obviously she counted during the exam because she must have finished the exam 20 minutes earlier than everyone due to her fast writing. lol

 

[lyounamu]

i use a laptop. and i'm a decent typer there's a word count in the corner, that's how i know

typing on computer =/= writing in exam

I can type three times faster than I can write.

 

[Jachie]

pretty much consistantly on 800, sometimes just above, most of the time just below

 

[lyounamu]

yes but i get to use the laptop for exams so for me typing = written response in exam

Really?? How com you can write with laptop, I envy you~~~

 

[lyounamu]

my writing's so slow it's apparently considered a disadvantage, i can't write under pressure for longer than an hour as my fingers are long which means i can't hold a pen properly and i can get cramps in my wrist. oh, and my writing gets pretty illegible to the point that its considered a disadvantage.

Yeah I have 10 or so friends who do that. But they only get to have extra time...(5 extra minutes per 30 minutes)

 

[sonyaleeisapixi]

i get around 12-15 words per line minimum and i dont have small writing so yours must be huge

its flowing and on an angle, so yeah, its pretty big. but its loose and my hand doesnt cramp or ache while im writing, so i can be quicker

 

[catherinet]

For Ext 1 English exam, we had 2 hours to do a short story and an essay.

I wrote about 6.5 pages on the story in 1hr 20min
and then about 4 pages on the essay in 40min (baaad text/lack of preparation)

 

[Felix Jones]

we had to write a prepared essay in class once, we had 45 mins, my essay was close to 900, i finished writing in 30 mins....i was soo paranoid that i had left a big chunck of my essay out, but turned out i aced it...yay.

 

[scora]

the way i hold my pens- the pressure builds in my wrists, and i end up having to take small breaks by shaking it out.

 

[veloc1ty]

yes but i get to use the laptop for exams so for me typing = written response in exam

Oh man that'd make it so easy. I could get 2000+ in 40 minutes instead of struggling to get 1000. XD

Edit: Though I guess it's quality not quantity... I probably couldn't think of 2000 words to write anyway.

 

[Timothy.Siu]

well, in a modern history exam we did recently, I wrote 8 pages in 45 mins although admittedly, the lines on the pages didn't go all the way. If I know the stuff, then I can write pretty fast in okay writing, but if I dont I can't write that much without knowing the stuff properly of course

 

[Zephyrio]

I shocked myself with 1300 in my module B trial response.

Usually, 1100-1200 though.