ANONYMOUS wrote: The full statement from the description is "If it is illegibly formatted (tiny font, for example) or otherwise unintelligible, it may not receive a mark." I do not believe anyone could honestly claim that 11-point font on an A4 page is illegible. It is a pretty standard font size. This is one factor of the page limit, which is intended as a human-understandable limit on information content. There is no reason for your report to be unreasonably long or detailed. That is just bad communication. I do not like giving word count limits as they are hard to enforce and encourage bad writing. Page limits are generally better received, but some students then try to submit 6-point text or something to try to cram in 4 times as many words. This rule simply allows us to discard any report where a student has done such a silly thing. Just write an honest document meant to communicate and convince me of your understanding of the topic clearly and succinctly and you will be fine.