the problem with that is if I don’t finish within that time, I just can’t move on because I’d feel really unsatisfied and distracted for the rest of the questions.
All good, I understand!
For this, I mean I think it's important to remember that your answer probably is sufficien and at the end of the day you'd probably want to give yourself enough time to answer all of the questions, rather than only be able to answer 3/4 of the questions perfectly and not have had enough time to answer that last 1/4 of questions. Getting it done is probably gonna be better than getting 3/4 of it perfect.
Tbh, I struggle with the exact same thing and one of my teachers just told me: you shouldn't spend so long trying to get your homework perfect cos the same thing happens with SACs, you spend way more time than you should trying to get the first couple of pages perfect and in doing so you're not even giving yourself enough time/ a chance to answer the rest of SAC.
Done is better than perfect. And once you've finished answering ALL of the SAC, you can come back to specific q's and adjust them as needed.
Also, do you tend to write more than needed (like going over the lines etc)? Cos I tend to do that as well. If you do then it's eating up your time in the SAC and it's not earning you any marks.
In terms of being distracted by the question you think you've answered insufficiently think of it this way:
- imagine the first question in the SAC is worth 3 marks, and you think that your answer will only get you about 2 marks right. Wouldn't it be better to leave it for now and attempt another question worth 3 marks, which say you have revised perfectly and you know you'll get 3 marks for. Following this method you'd get a total of 5/6 marks whereas trying to get your first answer perfect and running out of time (meaning you couldn't answer that question that you knew perfectly) would result in only 3/6 marks.
And with my practice questions, I try to set time limits too but since I get them marked by my teacher, I want to make sure that I’m showing her my best work so I know the standard I need to be at, excluding the time factor, if that makes sense?
Maybe ask for another practice SAC that you could mark yourself or that you could get a friend to mark and do that under timed conditions?
I hope this helped!