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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:49 pm
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I was having the same issue and what really helped me was to use a stopwatch instead of a timer. Something about waiting for the buzzer to go off always made me feel rushed and panicky, so I was missing questions I definitely should have gotten right.
When I started using a stopwatch to take individual sections, I felt more in control of the test. I was going over time by a few minutes in the beginning, but I started to get a natural feel for what pace I needed to be going and eventually became consistent with finishing in time and being able to go back and review questions I wasn't sure about. When I moved back to doing timed full length PTs, my score was consistently higher and I felt a lot more confident in knowing that I was in control of my pace.
I'm definitely not the highest scorer here, so you can take this with a grain of salt, but I was able to improve from a 164 to a 172 from the Feb to June test administrations.