<p>I simply ran out of time on Section 1, missed 4 questions. It may cost the NMS. I did not have time to answer them. I do not want to repeat this mistake in SAT. How can I improve the speed in actual testing conditions? When I did sample tests at home in near perfect conditions, I never had any issues with time. At school, subtle background noise distracts me and I need to refocus over and over again. This wasted my time considerably.</p>
<p>Here are my thoughts and plans.</p>
<p>1) Wake up at least 2 hours prior to the start of the exam. Last Wednesday, I woke up at 6:00 am and took the exam around 7:30, the brain was still not very alert. Instead, I should wake up at 5:00 am and do some 'YOGA' or breathing excercises. Some people suggest go and get some fresh air for 5 minutes and this should do the trick.</p>
<p>2) Should I drink any caffeine drinks? I do not like coffee or tea. How about some energy drinks? What are your thoughts?</p>
<p>3) Can we hear any noise cancellation headphones while we start working on Critical Reading sections? Is this allowed?</p>
<p>Any other thoughts, suggestions, ideas are most welcome. </p>
<p>Can some one propose some time table for doing sentence completion, short passages, comparing passages? This should help me. May be I should do it like 3 minutes ahead of schedule at home for Reading Sections. Do you believe that proctors chew up some time as well?</p>
<p>I don't think they will let us wear Bose headsets. Like you I get easily distracted. So I am bringing a pair of Mack's earplugs. You can buy them at any CVS. Also my teacher said you take the number of critical reading questions and add 2 to determine the best time for a passage. So if a passage has 9 questions the ideal time is 11 minutes. Good luck satacer. Lunch bell just rang! Got to jet....</p>
<p>They don't allow earplugs. Pay attention when the proctor reads the rules, etc ;)</p>
<p>You should aim to get the SC done in about 2-3 minutes. If you do not know the words, do not waste time thinking about them, you're better off just guessing</p>
<p>Also, read the passage fairly thoroughly the first time...this saves you a lot of time in the long run.</p>
<p>My typical CR timetable is (just FYI I got an 800 on CR):</p>
<p>I too have very good testing conditions at home. At school, I was stuck in a room full of kids who didn't care what they scored. People around me just stopped working halfway through several sections (gave up? got bored? idk) and just had to tap their feet, pencils, etc. I could ignore it for writing and math, but for CR it's so important to be able to focus on the passages. They're hard enough to concentrate on without hearing the future drummer of some garage band practice next to you.</p>
<p>I have a question to all who took PSAT on wednesday. If you got a writing passage about spiritual autobiographies, what did you get for the last question?
The question gave a sentence: In general, spiritual autobiographies help to morally awake people. Or something like that. Then the question said to put that sentence into a specific part of the paragraph. I put after sentence 12. WHat'd u put?</p>
<p>@fresh: I think it was after 5 most sensically. Somewhere in the second paragraph, no?</p>
<p>I went to sleep at 1:30 AM the night before, woke up at 6:30, didn't have time to shower (it's ok, i did it the night before), had a math test later that day, but I had a cup of earl grey the whole time (during the psat). the sleep thing actually didn't really make a difference for me. the tea was very relaxing.</p>
<p>That wasn't even an option i think. the options were before sent. 10, after. sent 10, befoe sent.11, befoe sent 12 and after sent12.
Just to be sure, JAGTHE BEETLES, can u recite me the options? And yes, sent. 12 was in the second paragraph. sent5. however was in the first.</p>