<p>Timing has not presented itself to be a major issue for me. On the actual exam back in September I finished with a few seconds to spare, and on my second practice test today I finished with about a minute left. </p>
<p>However I've been getting a ridiculous amount of the questions wrong, some I've noticed are either careless mistakes, others are wrong because I didn't read/search the passages well enough. How do I improve my accuracy w/o wasting time?</p>
<p>I thought about maybe taking more time to skim/read the passages and analyze the graphs before diving into the questions, that way if I run out of time at least a substantial amount of my questions will be correct to give me an average to decent score but idk. Any advice?</p>
<p>I feel like maybe you should improve your timing, since having seconds or even a minute to spare is really cutting close and can screw you over if you happen to get a ridiculously difficult passage/graph. I finished the whole thing in under half the time, and had plenty of time to check my work. </p>
<p>Approaching this is really your own style. For me, I would always read the graphs/data/passage first and try to understand what they were saying and make analyses of my own before attempting the questions. Only after that would I then go to the questions. And every time you mark an answer, always double-check and go back to the passage/data to make sure that answer is supported.</p>
<p>Another approach I used (I also did this on the reading passages in the English) was to make multiple passes through the questions. First time, only answer the easy/obvious questions that you already know they’re supported by the data (but make sure to double-check, still). And then each pass after that, answer progressively more and more difficult questions. What happens (at least for me) is that as you answer the questions, you begin to get a better feel and understanding for what they give you.</p>
<p>As with anything, it takes a LOT of practice to fine-tune your own approach.</p>