Index: lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java,v
diff -u -r1.42.2.8 -r1.42.2.9
--- lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java	31 Jul 2015 08:05:33 -0000	1.42.2.8
+++ lams_tool_assessment/src/java/org/lamsfoundation/lams/tool/assessment/web/action/LearningAction.java	5 Oct 2015 16:46:05 -0000	1.42.2.9
@@ -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) || []) ;