How to Use Reading Time

[beanybagger]

What is the most beneficial thing to do when using reading time?

Should you go through the multiple choice questions and try to remember the answers?

Should you go to the questions that require a bit of reading, so when writing time starts, you can immediately start and not waste time reading the question again?

[vox nihili]

What is the most beneficial thing to do when using reading time?

Should you go through the multiple choice questions and try to remember the answers?

Should you go to the questions that require a bit of reading, so when writing time starts, you can immediately start and not waste time reading the question again?

It depends on the person. Personally I just have a flick through, see what I'm up against and try to just get my confidence up.

[Aaron]

I have two main purposes for reading time:

Deciding the order of question completion
Read through each question and decide which questions you can confidently answer. I have the view that the questions that you believe you can confidently answer should be completed first for easy marks (but this is personal preference, i'm sure there will be a few that disagree with this statement).

Spend time thinking about responses to questions
It's important to understand what the question is asking. Identifying key words (e.g. Compare and contrast, Identify, Justify, Explain) is a good start. Obviously you can't write during reading time, so understand what's expected of you for each question so you can be confident in your responses.