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Viki2010
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What you say is exactly what I said if you read my earlier post.
We don't really have to go through this again do we. Nobody said you should start with the hard ones but rather IDENTIFY the hard questions or the ones with the most marks and ensure that they are TACKLED. The order I suggested was effective was easy-hard-easy. Read it below (or above) and understand.
Different people work with different strategies but a strategy which leaves out the hard ones or the ones with the most marks to the end is flawed. Why? You end up spending too much time on easy questions with the rest of your exam becoming history. Here are the strategies again as I have tested them.
- the easy-to-hard route. Result: spending too much time on easy questions
- the hard-to-easy route. Result: destroys confidence..you may end messing up easy ones
- numerical order route. Result: the distant second best but no strategy here because you are working with cards that are dealt to you by the examiner.
- easy-hard-easy. Result: always comes out trumps simply the best, better than all the rest
I don't know about you, but the easy questions I do pretty fast.....the not so obvious and hard I would rather not attempt till the end, as I need to think before I do them....and don't want to waste time thinking in the beginning or in the middle of the exam, if in the meantime I can collect all the points solving the easy problems.....