Harley1980 wrote:
Engr2012 wrote:
In my experience, it is not at all useful to keep a track of time for sets of less than 10 questions. I always used to look up the time once I finished 10,20,30 etc questions. This way you are not overly fixated on the time.
Hello
Engr2012.
I am control freak, so for me my way works better
But I agree that for a lot of people is better not pay too much attention on time.
So for one the best approach will be to try both methods and decide for oneself what is better personally for him or her.
If it's about opinion then I would suggest that one should always keep track of time during practice tests so that it doesn't make you conscious during the actual test scenario.
Not keeping the track of time just because it makes you conscious doesn't seem logical when the fact is you have to deal with the section within 75 mins so whether you like it or not, whether you finish test in 75 mins or not the section is going to end in 75 mins.
"To keep the track of time and still be relaxed" can be worked up on in various ways
My way is that I prefer to keep in my mind that I have Quant section of 30 Questions to finish in 60 mins. The benefit of taking test with this target is that you get sufficient time (15 mins) to attempt last 7 questions of the test which as per the feedback of majority tests takers are usually of medium difficulty level and also more important because any question left un-attempted will fetch higher penalty thank getting them wrong.
Finally it's all about practice and finding your comfort level along with being able to finish test in time. So I don't want to say that not keeping rack of time is bad idea for the people for whom it works but keep track of time is certainly better if you can make yourself comfortable with it.
In real world scenario we always get time deadlines to finish the work in daily, weekly, monthly yearly form. Deadlines which can't be ignored or overlooked at work... then why overlook time deadline here?
I hope it helps the reader to make their decision.