Good morning! The sun is shining. It’s a cool, crisp 32 degrees out, and it is a B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L day.
Let’s see, what can we talk about today?
Oh, I know. One of my favorite topics: time.
Time is an incredible resource. And something that has to be watched very, very carefully.
I hear from people ALL of the TIME who run out of time on test day. At least, on the first section. Then maybe they pick it up and do better from there, but why let that stress creep in?
You know exactly how long you have. You have one minute per question.
One minute.
Now some questions take 5 minutes, and some questions take 20 seconds.
There are two ways to improve your time on the exam.
#1 Philosophy
Decide ahead of time that the long-ass questions are worth EXACTLY the same as the one-line questions. There is zero difference in their value. If I get stuck muddling in a 2-paragraph question, I do my best and move on, and I forget about it. I don’t let it affect the next 5 questions. I answer it and drop it. You don’t have the luxury of spending 10 minutes, looking at labs and thinking about it when there’s still a high probability you’ll get it wrong.
Worse yet is worrying about that question while trying to answer the next ten.
#2 Practice
Whenever you do practice questions, do them with a timer. Do 10 questions, set the timer for 10 minutes.
Every single time.
Use a timer practice.
The other way to speed things up is to know your facts. I mean really know them.
That’s the goal of The Final Step. Know the easy ones. Know your facts. Know your key terms.
That way you can make up tons of time on the easy ones.
Brian Wallace
P.S. Next week I’m going to be offering The Dream Job Package with some great new material including two live group coaching sessions. It won’t be available until next week. But you can get a sneak peek by clicking here. It’ll be available to purchase on Thursday 1/13/22.