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How many words can you write in 1hr

In preparing for exams etc...

i was wondering how many words on average YOU can write in 1hr...

i know it would be good practicing essays and working it out from there... but i need to know a rough idea b4 i start writing practice answers...
 

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Re: How many words can you write in 1hr

i cant believe you havent had to write an essay in an hour for an asessment before?

the last extension english task i did in an hour and i wrote about four and a half A4 pages.............dunno if that helps immensly.

you could always just sit down and write for an hour. give a practice a go and dont worry about what you should be aiming for. jsut try a practice and answer the question in an hour
 

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1400 maximum with sloppy-ish hadnwriting.
 

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If fully memorized, about 1600 words. We have been given two questions for different subjects and were required to reproduce it under exam conditions. Not hard, but your hand kills!
 
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3-5 exercise pages in 40 minutes, depending on the subject i go at different speeds... but i never have 1 hour essays, only 40minutes

my hint, change pens every paragraph, so your hands/wrist feel better!
 

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Re: How many words can you write in 1hr

abcd9146 said:
3-5 exercise pages in 40 minutes, depending on the subject i go at different speeds... but i never have 1 hour essays, only 40minutes

my hint, change pens every paragraph, so your hands/wrist feel better!
Use gel pens!
 

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don't know about words...but i can write a max of 7 and a bit A4 pages in an hour. our ext. 1 teacher scared the shit out of me by saying the best students in the state can write 4 hsc booklets!!!!!!!! 4!!!!!!! that's like the equivalent of 16 normal pages!!!!! how is that even physically possible?! :eek: :eek: sorry, off topic there, lol.
 
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^CoSMic DoRiS^^ said:
don't know about words...but i can write a max of 7 and a bit A4 pages in an hour. our ext. 1 teacher scared the shit out of me by saying the best students in the state can write 4 hsc booklets!!!!!!!! 4!!!!!!! that's like the equivalent of 16 normal pages!!!!! how is that even physically possible?! :eek: :eek: sorry, off topic there, lol.
The HSC booklets have really large spacing between lines
 

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i know, you're both right. :) it just freaked me out, because 4 booklets is still an awful lot. kinds intimidating, lol.
 

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I busted out 5600 words in 2005 legal in... probably about 2 hours and 40 minutes. 2100 words an hour. This is on a laptop. My wrists were burning and burning after that little effort.
 

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This is on a laptop.
Only 35 words per minute...

Anyway, who can be bothered to count how many words they'd just written... :confused:
 

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currently at 1400 words for my business in-class assignment... hav it on monday

going to write it out in 50 min period... and hopefully have it memorised in a few days
 

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Re: How many words can you write in 1hr

I could do about 5-6 normal A4 pages in 1 hour.

The Average is about 4-5 pages in that time, so aim for at least something in that range.
 

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it's so hard to compare by number of written pages.. cuz writing sizes vary a lot~.. i wrote 9 pages in 50min in an assessment with an average of 4 words per line (total of around 1300 words cuz i typed the essay up before so i kno).. but i've written a bit smaller now, averaging 7 pages in 35-40min with 5-6 words per line.. just press them into the calculator to find length in an hour!!

but then i guess in one hour essays, unlike 40min essays, you take even more time to plan it out, so it should be shorter..
 

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~1500 in an hr. Sometimes I can write 8 pages in 45 mins, and 8 pages in an hour. My writing speed depends on how long I know I have left and how much I have to write!
 

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felixcthecat said:
it's so hard to compare by number of written pages.. cuz writing sizes vary a lot~.. i wrote 9 pages in 50min in an assessment with an average of 4 words per line (total of around 1300 words cuz i typed the essay up before so i kno).. but i've written a bit smaller now, averaging 7 pages in 35-40min with 5-6 words per line.. just press them into the calculator to find length in an hour!!

but then i guess in one hour essays, unlike 40min essays, you take even more time to plan it out, so it should be shorter..
4 words per line!?!? thats HUGE writing... was this in A4 paper? or HSC booklets, but still 5-6 words isn't much...
but then again i need to write bigger, teachers get pissed off cos i write too small >_>
 

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Re: How many words can you write in 1hr

I could do about 1200-1500 words about 4-5 A4 pages in one hour, although not sure how many HSC booklet pages this would be as I haven't used them when writting an essay.
 

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