How do you approach reading time?

[xXPersonXx]

Do you familiarise yourself with the short answer questions or do you attempt to complete as much multiple choice as possible? or both?

[Lasercookie]

edit: oh oops, I thought this post was about physics :/
I think it may sort of apply to chemistry (though the multiple choice in chemistry might be harder than the multiple choice in physics, in which case it wouldn't be too relevant).


I flick through the entire exam for the first two minutes and decide which section has the lengthiest questions. I then spend 2 to 3 minutes on each section, figuring out how long each question will take. The rest of reading time is spent just re-reading over the questions that I think will take longer (usually the ones that give a diagram and a scenario kind of thing).

This usually ends up with me ignoring the multiple choice, since that usually tends to have questions that can be done easily during writing time through elimination etc.

When writing time starts, I start with the lengthy questions first.

[Greatness]

For the unit 3 exam, i read the extended resposne first to get an idea of what was happening then read MC while doing the theory questions. Once writing time started i think i coloured in all the MC i knew then went on to do ER then go back to MC.
I might do MC first this time...

[b^3]

For the unit 3 exam, i read the extended resposne first to get an idea of what was happening then read MC while doing the theory questions. Once writing time started i think i coloured in all the MC i knew then went on to do ER then go back to MC.
I might do MC first this time...

That is the same methods that I used and I'm going to use it again for this exam. It works because you are thinking about the ER questions and get the idea, then in the last 5 mins of reading time I was able to knock off about 5 MC in my head, and get then coloured and done in the first couple of mins before moving back to ER.