<p>lets say, you're like me, and you usually only finish with 5 minutes to spare. you know you don't have time to look at all the questions. so what do you do? just go back and look at the ones you're unsure of. or look at all of them really really fast. and when you do relook at them, do you just redo the problem completely? or make a cursory glance at your work for no careless errors</p>
<p>if i were you, i would mark the questions i'm not sure of and check them in my 5 minutes spare...unfortunately i'm not you</p>
<p>Yeah, in your booklet circle the problems that give you trouble or take longer than average, and go back and check those. If they had given you trouble earlier I would re-do the problem or try to with as many as I could that I had circled. If there are none that you circled, try to figure out which are the hard ones and try those. Many of the hard ones are near the end. Also check the closer to the end ones because a lot of people's mind is becoming fatigued and they just want to end the section, especially towards the very end of the test, and you may make careless mistakes.</p>
<p>prince, i have a feeling that you have 5 minutes left because you take long on each question (finish the question, check it for like another 10-20 seconds, and look at it empty-headed for like another 5-10 seconds.)</p>
<p>This works trust me.</p>
<p>Do each math question and don't check it (well u can but do it really quickly). cirlce the answer on the test itself but don't put the answer on the answer sheet yet. </p>
<p>If its an easy question like) If 3 times x plus two is five of x divided by 3, what is X. just make an equation really quickly without really reading it and solve. </p>
<p>do all the problems on both pages (that you can visibly see), and after getting answers for all of them, put down the answers on the answer sheet.</p>
<p>This saves lots of time.</p>
<p>circle,box, flag, question mark whatever questions you're kinda iffy on and go to the next page.</p>
<p>The first 1-13 questions or so are VERY straightforward and can be done very quickly.</p>
<p>You want to become very careful around question 15 because thats when they start throwing cheap tricks at you.</p>
<p>If you know how to do the problem, don't waste time DO IT.</p>
<p>If you're lucky the last 20-25 will have some very straightforward questions. This will leave you with like 1-3 questions you're not sure on at the end. On those 1-3 questions, do the simplest ones that u think figure out, and then do the next one. Leave the hardest one (that u can't even think how to do) til the very end. Return to the questions you circled. Check that rapidly but accurately. </p>
<p>After checking ht eones u flagged, go back ot the hard question. Now that you've had a break from seeing that question, you'll have a better chance of getting it right because either A) it clicked in your mind b) you realized theer's some numerical way to do or C) you bail out and you use ESTIMATIONS. </p>
<p>If you do this you'll be confident with the answers you got with the 25 questions.</p>
<p>so you're saying, its more efficient to just do all the work in the booklet, then circle the answers in the scantron seperately?</p>
<p>yes remember that 1-13/15 are very straightforward and easy. The mistake that most people make is that on these problems they OVERANALYZE and spend way too much time on these problems. Questions 1-15 should be done in 10mins or less leaving 15mins for questions 16-25.
GoodLuck</p>
<p>A good tip I got from my prep book, Rocket Review, is to reread the question before you the mark the answer in the answer sheet. This tip alone would probably fix all of my math mistakes.
It also says that if you have time to spare at the end, then you went too fast, but I think that applies to people who have problems with the math (and have to resort to using strategies like backsolving on EVERY problem.)
Another tip from my book is to "take pains", to be paranoid about doing things right, which will slow you down but raise your accuracy.
5 minutes is more than enough. Just go through the test in passes. If you are scared by a math problem the second you see it just circle it, skip it and go to the next one. Come back to it later in another pass through the test. Sometimes the first time you will see a problem you will have no idea what to do. You just gotta warm up.</p>