How to speed up test taking!!

[BoneNibbler]

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Okay heres the deal peeps:

I was finishing 48 questions with about 15 minutes left and getting lower scores than I liked, apparently due to just picking the first answer that looked right (knee-jerk) instead of thinking about the problem and then figuring out the answer.

So I tried a block by thinking through all answers etc. and ran out of time and missed like 8 out of the last 10 since I had no time to read question, just pick a random answer. By Thinking things through my score went up like 10% and I think if I had time to reason through the last 10 q's it would go up more!! HELP ME THINK FASTER!!!!!

 

[Chez]

Are you talking about Qbank questions? Those questions require more thinking than the real Step 1 questions so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

With the real exam though, it is a good idea to read the last sentence first if the vignette is really long because sometimes they ask a question that has almost nothing to do with the vignette.