I think the upper limits are mostly there for two reasons. To give the students a rough idea of what’s expected in scope and also to protect the person from having to grade a 100 page thesis when they planned to grade a short essay.
That being said, there were a few times where they enforced strict page limits for us, but in those cases they would warn us about it explicitly multiple times.
In college most of my courses were page ranges. 7-12 pages, 75-100, etc. I went over a few times and never heard anything about it
I think the upper limits are mostly there for two reasons. To give the students a rough idea of what’s expected in scope and also to protect the person from having to grade a 100 page thesis when they planned to grade a short essay.
That being said, there were a few times where they enforced strict page limits for us, but in those cases they would warn us about it explicitly multiple times.