66-page model answer to final exam in Torts and I have questions
My Torts professor kindly produces several essay questions from past exams for our finals prep, along with model answers from actual students. The exams are closed book and three hours long with a MCQ section. The advice is to split it up 1 hr/2hrs.
One of the model answers was 66 pages and about 12000 words. I looked it up and this would require 100 wpm at two hours. Even assuming they got through the MCQs in 30 minutes, that's still 80 wmp. The work had some repetitive cut and paste rule paragraphs but for the most part was actual substantive text. Another model answer provided, to a different essay prompt, was 43 pages long, and had almost no repetition.
Now I'm assuming these students had time accommodations. I don't think it's reasonable to believe these were done in the time provided. 100wpm leaves zero time for outlining or planning out the answer, you just have to type insanely fast for two hours straight. And I'm not even accounting for the time needed to read the essay prompt. Also notable these answers were remarkably devoid of typos and other errors.
Without getting into the weeds as to the great accommodation debate, it seems wrong to me to provide model answers that were produced under time accommodations or to hold those out as model responses. Is my thinking wrong for this? I think I did pretty well on the final but my response was a fraction of the length and sometimes I spiral out a little thinking about it. And I'm a well above-average typist. 🥴 Is this kind of thing an argument for word count limits?