by StaceyKoprince Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:32 pm
Do not spend extra time on any questions anywhere on the test. You need to work at a steady pace all the way through. If a question is too hard, pull the plug - make an educated guess and move on when your time is up.
You will never be able to finish the test if you spend extra time on earlier questions - no matter how good you get, the test will give you things you can't do. Your ONLY feasible strategy is to pick out the hardest ones as they show up, make an educated guess, and move on.
Notice that I'm saying this without knowing your scoring level. Your scoring level DOESN'T MATTER. What I wrote above is true for everyone, at every level.
DO NOT leave the last 10 for guesses. Getting any one question wrong will not seriously impact your score, even if it's the easiest question on your test. Getting a string of questions wrong in a row, on the other hand, will absolutely kill your score - and that's exactly what will happen if you continue not to have enough time on the last ten. If you get all ten of those wrong, your percentile will drop by something like 20-30 percentile points! And for every question you leave blank, your percentile automatically drops 3 points (that is, 10*3 = 30).
Stacey Koprince
Instructor
Director, Content & Curriculum
ManhattanPrep