How to improve?

Hey Akamai, I found what you said to be very helpful. It also got me thinking about timing. I went back and looked at the average amount of time that I spent on a question and noticed a mistake. I have been getting the first eight or so on the math section correct and then will get a super tough problem that takes me five minutes to organize ('cause I approach it the wrong way). I will end up solving it, but at too great an expense. From that point I begin looking at the clock around questions 15-18 and will miss two or three easy ones, sometimes consecutively. From there the carelessness mounts. If I look back at a math section in which I have missed eight questions, five or so will be the result of bad pacing. On the verbal I miss seven or eight total but always about five of the sc because I am so excited to see a short question (and finish early lol). I guess that's the mentality of a slacker. This is not an easy problem to solve though. I suppose I need to take a lot of practice tests to get the pacing down. How many did you take? And from what companies (I am not always hip to some of the abbreviations used here. Some of us slower ones need everything spelled out lol)? Regards Paul