How many Characters per essay? plz help

<p>Ok, I'm confused. I went to workshop on Saturday and this lady told us a bunch of stuff, most of which were wrong. She also told us that all our essays(essay questions) combined should be a total of 7000 Characters. Is that true? And do we have to put all our essays in one document? I've written my first essay, it's roughly 700 words but it has about 2000 Characters(with Spaces). Thanks</p>