Current Year Courses + Essay questions

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>Hi.
I'm an international. What should I fill in the current year courses section? I don't have AP, IB etc. I have studied the same subjects for 11th and 12th grades and they are the courses prescribed by the government education board. So when I have to write
Coursename/Level/Credit value
Should I write
<subject name="">/<govt edu="" board="" name="">/<max marks="" obtainable="" out="" of="" 100="">
or should I write
<subject name="">/<govt edu="" board="" name="">/<marks that="" i="" obtained="" out="" of="" 100="">.</marks></govt></subject></max></govt></subject></p>

<p>And in the short commonapp essay,can I remove some spaces(like I did b/w the word can and the comma -->"essay,can" in this line) to save up on characters?
Thanks.</p>

2

<p>No idea for your question about classes, but for the essay, you can’t do that. Leave the spaces in</p>

3

<p>Strange. I just read this on the common app help:
“Please do not add any special formatting or unnecessary spaces since these are counted in the character count.”
I think this means I can knock off extra spaces. Not b/w two words, but perhaps b/w a word and a comma/full stop…</p>

4

<p>How is that an unnecessary space?</p>

5

<p>Fine. It isn’t.
Any idea about my first question? It’s that one which has me in a fix.</p>