Like the passage + the questions?
How much time should you spend on a PS and BS passage?
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Depends on how well you know the material ... on some practices I could skip the entire passage and get all the questions correct for BS, and for PS I would just reference the charts for #s I needed, so I could get them done in about 2 minutes. However, if you've never seen the material before then do your 8 minutes or w/e if you have trouble pacing. Just stick to that and you'll finish all the questions on that section...unless you want to finish in record time or something I figured this would be pretty self explanatory
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Usually I try for 7 mins a passage (including questions). Some passages, like mitchlucker said, are obviously very short and like discrete questions so they don't take too much time and some passages are very experimental and take about 9 mins to comprehend+answer questions so in a SECTION I try to make it average out to about 7 minutes per passage without losing accuracy.
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It really depends, for biology I can sometimes get through a passage+questions in about 4 minutes. Sometimes even shorter for the short passages, and I almost always have about 15-20 minutes left at the end. But for PS it can really vary, I spend more time per question because I tend to make careless mistakes in PS pretty often but I like to do discretes first and then start from the beginning and will typically check the time when I have 3 passages left. Usually I like to have about 30-40 minutes for the last 3 passages. Sometimes I can read a passage and completely blow through the questions, sometimes I don't even need to read it and sometimes I need to read it several times over and note important information. It all depends on the passage type.
I typically finish PS with about 2 minutes left over unless it was a particularly difficult exam (Kaplan FL 4 comes to mind where I ended up not finishing two passages and missed like... 15 questions, yet still got a 12 wtf). At that point I'll just go back to the questions that I've marked. I used to fly through PS but would always make about 5-6 stupid mistakes in the process, when I take my time, I can cut it down to 2-3 typically. Just things like reading questions properly. That is the difference of a point or two for me.
I typically finish PS with about 2 minutes left over unless it was a particularly difficult exam (Kaplan FL 4 comes to mind where I ended up not finishing two passages and missed like... 15 questions, yet still got a 12 wtf). At that point I'll just go back to the questions that I've marked. I used to fly through PS but would always make about 5-6 stupid mistakes in the process, when I take my time, I can cut it down to 2-3 typically. Just things like reading questions properly. That is the difference of a point or two for me.
