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GerrySly:
Hi,

I am having some really bad problems about speed with exams. I can do most of the questions fine but I can't do them within the time limit. I really wanna finish with 15 minutes to spare so I can really minimize those ridiculous errors I make. Has anybody had this problem and overcame it? Or am I just doomed to fail being this slow this close to the exam? I did a practice exam the other day and didn't even attempt maybe 3 multi choice and 4 parts all up of the short answers.

I do try to set things out nicely for a fear of just doing it in my head and missing something crucial (graphing it as well)

jimmy999:
If you want to finish exam 1s with 15 mins spare, then you'll have to work at a pace of 1 mark a minute. A better idea might be to do the questions worth the most marks first. I find I work faster when I do the biggest questions first mainly because you have most of the marks out of the way and you're just trying to get small marks everywhere else.

For exam 2s, I suggest to spend no more than 30 mins on multiple choice. The remainder of the time you should spend on extended response. A good idea is to start on the extended response first and once 90 mins is up, is to simply move onto the multiple choice.

Make sure to keep doing as many practice exams as possible so you can get your timing done right.

I also suggest that once the time is up, to change colour pens just so you know exactly how much took you over the time limit

TrueTears:
Try work as fast as you can for MC, spam calc for any questions that can be done on the calc.

Eg, if you get some question like prove sin(x) blah blah = something identity, and you can't do it no matter how much you try, just sub a value for x and test each MC.

Leave the ones that you can't do until the end and come back to it.

Try not to "rush" the extended response because those require some thinking and sometimes if you make an early mistake it could heavily affect your later parts. However still try to maintain a reasonable pace, not too fast yet not too slow, by doing a lot of practise exams you will gradually find your natural pace.

Hope that helps.

GerrySly:
Thanks for that jimmy999, I have been doing it first question to last question for exam 1 and short answer to multi choice for exam 2's. I guess I should really capitalise on my reading time and note where I should begin and work through (large to short questions).


--- Quote from: TrueTears ---Try not to "rush" the extended response because those require some thinking and sometimes if you make an early mistake it could heavily affect your later parts. However still try to maintain a reasonable pace, not too fast yet not too slow, by doing a lot of practise exams you will gradually find your natural pace.
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Ah righto, something I wanted to know, if you screw up something in the first part do you get the rest wrong if you have to use that information for extra parts? Or do they take into account you actually did all the correct math and got it right it is just a result of previous mistakes?

TrueTears:
You'd still get marks for working for the rest of the parts, however unlike chem/physics you won't get a mark for answer, all answers for the rest of the parts will be lost.

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