Suggested Formulation of Exam Time (1 Viewer)

[Sparcod]

I dont know how to divide up my time for economics.
For the essays, the exam paper suggests 35 minutes but honestly, you need at least 45 minutes.
Multiple choice- It takes less than a minute per q!

X-Choice: 15
Section 2: 70
Essay 1: 45
Essay 2:45

Extra 5 minutes to check and add to my essays.
What are your suggestions?

 

[gnrlies]

I dont know how to divide up my time for economics.
For the essays, the exam paper suggests 35 minutes but honestly, you need at least 45 minutes.
Multiple choice- It takes less than a minute per q!

X-Choice: 15
Section 2: 70
Essay 1: 45
Essay 2:45

Extra 5 minutes to check and add to my essays.
What are your suggestions?

haha well I would firstly be bemused as to why you would try to "plan" your time...

When you approach an exam, its not as though you can do it any faster. Its not like you are deliberately gonna go slow to keep to a time frame, or stop and relax until your time allocation is up.

The point im making is that it takes you as long as it takes. It will depend on how hard the questions are etc.

Realistically you should do it as fast as you can, and then divide the time remaining in order to do the extended responses.

You probably want at least 50 mins for each essay, so move fast.

 

[fishy89sg]

it took me a while to work out what X-Choice was..

 

[TABismyfuture]

Multi choices 10 min

Short answers 40min

essay 1 1h

essay 2 1h

10mins check

 

[nickyroony]

I always start with an extended response first, then do multiple choice, short answer, then the last response. This way I'm not writing two huge essays in a row (give my hand a break!), and since most of your reading time should be used thinking about what you're going to write in the extended response, might as well do one right then right?

 

[gnrlies]

I always start with an extended response first, then do multiple choice, short answer, then the last response. This way I'm not writing two huge essays in a row (give my hand a break!), and since most of your reading time should be used thinking about what you're going to write in the extended response, might as well do one right then right?

Hmm thats an interesting strategy....

My only problem with that is that if you do an essay first, then you dont know how much time you have to do it.

For example if you finish the multiple choice and short answers in an hour, then you know that you have an hour to spend on each essay.

You have to assume how long the other parts are going to take you in order to start with an essay.

 

[nickyroony]

Hmm thats an interesting strategy....

My only problem with that is that if you do an essay first, then you dont know how much time you have to do it.

For example if you finish the multiple choice and short answers in an hour, then you know that you have an hour to spend on each essay.

You have to assume how long the other parts are going to take you in order to start with an essay.

I guess I'm just relying on past papers. I've done most of them under timed condition, and the time I take for multiple choice and short answers are roughly the same every time, so from that I pretty much just estimate that I have around 50min for each extended response. I try to finish them in timeframe.

It would probably be dangerous if this year's paper has harder MP/Short answers and I require more time for them, but we'll see how it goes I guess.

 

[Rafy]

I split my time as such:
10-15mins M/C
50mins S/A
1 hour each Essay

If you've done enough study you shouldnt need much more time than that for M/C and S/A. Remember for the S/A there is no need to write responses that fill more than space provided. Learn to write succinctly and to the point, otherwise you are just wasting time and marks.

 

[fishy89sg]

our teacher said that the 5 mark questions are worth as much as 'a quarter of an extended response'

theres an underlying message im missing..

 

[nickyroony]

Maybe she meant that, you take an hour to get 20 marks for extended response, while people would only take probably less than 5 minutes to answer a 5 mark question in the short answers. If you think about it, it's much harder to get the 5 marks in extended response than short answers. So I think she's saying to take your time with the short answers?

*shrug*

 

[wuddie]

gnrlies and wings - you plan your time so if you're behind, you know when to go on to the next section, you douche bags. not everyone will go as fast as you think. 'No exam is exactly the same therefore you need to realise that it may take slightly longer to do one question then another etc' - yea but the mark allocation is the same year after year, so you know what's in front of you.

anyway, mine is 10min for mc, 50min for short answers, an hr each for the essays.

just for the record - why does the dog licks his own balls? 'COS HE CAN

 

[gnrlies]

gnrlies and wings - you plan your time so if you're behind, you know when to go on to the next section, you douche bags. not everyone will go as fast as you think. 'No exam is exactly the same therefore you need to realise that it may take slightly longer to do one question then another etc' - yea but the mark allocation is the same year after year, so you know what's in front of you.

anyway, mine is 10min for mc, 50min for short answers, an hr each for the essays.

just for the record - why does the dog licks his own balls? 'COS HE CAN

Who you calling a douchebag?

grow up

 

[gemrism]

Multiple Guess: 10
Short Answer: 55
Essay 1: 55
Essay 2: 55
Check: 5

 

[Sparcod]

one hour for the essays is too long. Its slightly longer than the english ones- for me at least.

 

[fishy89sg]

yeh apparently you have, what, 40 minutes for each essay?