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- Estimate your time. Quickly check to see how many questions the exam contains, in order to know approximately how fast you will need to work in order to finish the exam in the time allotted. Always keep track of your time.
- Do the exam in layers. The best strategy for this kind of exam is to do the exam in 3 layers.
- First do all the questions which you know extremely well, which you can do very quickly. This strategy has three major advantages.
- First, it allows you to score the highest number of points possible should you find the exam too long or too difficult to finish.
- Second, it prevents you from getting bogged down with a few early questions that you might not know the answer to. When this happens, it can easily leave you in a state of panic that seriously reduces your ability to do the parts of the exam that you do know well.
- In addition, spending lots of time on one or two questions at the beginning of a short answer or multiple-choice exam can so focus your mind on one or two issues that you find yourself less able to work quickly.
- Skip the questions that you cannot answer quickly or immediately. Mark the question in the margin so that you can find it again easily when you go through the exam on your second run.
- On the second run, do those questions whose answers you can find with a minute or less of thought. Mark the other difficult questions (whose answers you cannot come up with so easily).
- On the third run, work with the hardest questions.
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