<p>On the regular SAT section, I would normally finish at around 25/30 minutes. However for Math IIC, I always run out of time on the practice exams. Im not too familiar with the material in the first place.</p>
<p>For someone looking to score ~750, how should I pace myself?
What number should I be up to at 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I'd say you'd probably want to be finished with the whole thing by 50 minutes.</p>
<p>heres a tip: do questions 1-30 normally those are the easy ones. then flip around 31-50 and do the questions you can do quickly first. especially ones where you can just plug the answers in.</p>
<p>I finished the whole test this way, but left 1 blank because I had no clue. I had little prep and have a bad math program at school, and I pulled off a 740.</p>
<p>Get a couple of practice books and do lots of practice under timed conditions. And look at the explanations even for the ones you get right, if it takes you more than about 30 seconds. There may be some different way to approach it that would shave off some time.</p>
<p>Keep on doing practice exams - with more practice, you familiarize yourself with the material (you should be VERY comfortable with it as you walk into the exam room), and you can speed up.</p>
<p>I tried to finish the first half of the test in 20 minutes. I didn't pace myself exactly according to time, though - somehow I practiced enough that I felt that I knew when I was taking too long on a problem, so I'd mark the number in the test booklet and move on.</p>
<p>I got an 800 on the IIC last June - omitted two (didn't know one and didn't finish the other, which was the last one), "guessed" (through POE) on two.</p>
<p>i can never finish the Barron's work book, and a month a go, on first 2 tests, i was able to get around 37-42 right, but yesterday, i got a 25 and a 33!!!! i am going to screw up so badly :(</p>
<p>Yeah in june i was doing really good everything was great and then they cllaed time and i....uh....still had 13 problems left. lol i got a 700 and omitted 13 so time is definitely a tough factor.</p>
<p>The first 30 questions are usually a piece of cake. But I always made sure to check my answers as I went along. On the actual test I ran out of time at the end, and was forced to leave 5 blank. But those last ten questions are the hardest ones anyways, and they always take longer than the others to answer. </p>
<p>Newby, you're in a great position to do well. I was scoring in the high 20's on most of the Barron's tests, and I ended up doing quite well on the actual test. Don't sweat it.</p>
<p>ok. i dont mean to hijack this thread, but what does polarization mean? that was on the last test, and i had NO idea what it meant...</p>
<p>I know exactly how you're feeling. I took the mathiic on november 6. Before that date, i had trouble finishing all my practice tests on time. I usually had to give myself 5-10 minutes over the one hour limit. It seemed disastrous! On the day of the test, i hurried through the first 1-30 questions like crazy! (make sure you're not careless though!) i skipped questions that i knew were going to take a long time for me. I ended up finishing the test 15 minutes early! It was amazing... i even got time to go back and do questions i had skipped before. In the end, i skipped four and managed an 800. My suggestion for you would be to do practice tests as fast as you can.</p>