<p>You also need to take into account how long it takes to drive to the center, walk to the building from your car, find the check-in point in the building, stand in line (which may be quite long), walk to your testing room, and wait for everyone to enter and be seated. Only then will testing start (must start by 9 AM). </p>
<p>But that is when the instructions must start, not the actual test itself. The time in the testing room is more than four hours. Besides the ten test sections, there are the initial instructions, filling out the identification page, the three breaks, the certification statement box, the wait as test materials are collected and counted, and the final instructions. It may not seem like much, but it adds up.</p>
<p>Altogether from the time everyone is seated to when everyone is dismissed, I find it takes about 5 1/2 hours, depending on how many students are in a room (a classroom of 20 will take less time than an auditorium of 80).</p>