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Hi Keith, From what I learned from the AS training session and Guidance day, to answer your questions as follows: 1. the candidate must keep the word limit within the specified limit, 200 is the maximum allowed. The punctuations are not counted as words. The examiner actually will draw a line after the 200th character even before they read and mark the writing!!! anything after the 200th character will not be considered, no matter how wonderfully written. But of course, I understand that if there are only a few words which exceed the word limit of 200 but are necessary to finish off the last sentence as a whole sentence, I hope the exminer will not be too harsh about it. But definitely not exceeding too much, never exceed a few lines more than the word limit!!! 2.for reading comprehension, the candidate will have to answer the questions to the point, it could be a short answer or a complete/long answer. Yes, the candidate may copy the sentences from the text as their answer to the question, but they have to hit the point of the question, not just copying the sentence without understand the meaning. Hope it helps to answer your queries. Lisa Wang Calday Grange Grammar School Quoting keith saunders <[log in to unmask]>: > > Dear teachers/examiners of AS level > > Sorry to bother you, but I have 2 questions regarding the AS: > > 1. Does it matter if you write over 200 squares for the essay? > Presumably as long as it doesn't go over the space given...? > > 2. For the longer written comprehension answers, does it matter if > you simply copy from the text? > > Sorry if these questions have been asked before - I am doing the exam > and don't want to fall foul of the regulations! > > Many thanksKeith Saunders > _________________________________________________________________ > > All new Live Search at Live.com > > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000006ukm/direct/01/