Index: lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java
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diff -u -rdb599324881fb550c8645c904483d48ffe9f237d -r07feb384153a4a121bb90e2ff91a4e53475bea92
--- lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java	(.../LearningAction.java)	(revision db599324881fb550c8645c904483d48ffe9f237d)
+++ lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java	(.../LearningAction.java)	(revision 07feb384153a4a121bb90e2ff91a4e53475bea92)
@@ -890,6 +890,8 @@
 		    // HTML tags stripping
 		    if (question.isAllowRichEditor()) {
 			answer = WebUtil.removeHTMLtags(answer); // answer.replaceAll("/<\/?[a-z][^>]*>/gi", '');
+		    } else {
+			answer = answer.replaceAll("(?:<BR>)", " ");
 		    }
 		    
 		   int wordCount = (answer.length() == 0) ? 0 : answer.replaceAll("[\'\";:,\\.\\?\\-!]+", "").split("\\S+").length;//.match(/\S+/g) || []) ;