Overcoming The Test Time Limits

<p>I don't have any learning disorder, but I am a slow test taker. Anyone know any tips to overcome those test time limits for the SAT and ACT? I also need some tips on just overcoming those class time only test time limits in class (45 minutes only). Thanks!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>My best advice for in-school tests is to study and know the material very well— so well that you don’t need to think. Try to anticipate the test questions, and work out similar problems or pre plan test essays. This advice had helped my son who is a slow test taker with ADHD.</p>

<p>For SATs or other standardized tests, practice is very helpful. Most people can improve their speed with practice.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>“I don’t have any learning disorder, but I am a slow test taker.”</p>

<p>There is some reason (or perhaps more than one reason) why you are a slow test taker. It could be slower than average reading, slower than average writing, slower than average processing (understanding), ad use of time, etc. If you consistently have trouble with time on exams, you need to talk with your guidance counselor and the school psychologist. You may indeed have a learning difference that is causing you trouble, or there may be some simple coping skills that you haven’t mastered yet. You won’t know until you ask for an evaluation. Please look into this now. You don’t want this problem to just get worse and worse for the rest of HS and on into college.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>

<p>One tip that I found helpful, whenever you read anything, DRAG your eyes across the words from one end to the other end of the page. It makes your eyes pretty fast at reading, from my personal experience alone. Makes you finish reading faster, although I can’t speak for memory retention…</p>