5 tips to increase your speed in SAT

SAT exams can be tricky, It is important that you use every second of that the time given to complete the test judiciously. If you give a lot of time to a few difficult questions, you might end up losing on many easy ones. Here are some tips that will help you in increasing your speed while taking your SAT.

One page at a time: Instead going back and forth again and again try finishing up bubbling the answers on one sheet first. Turning and shuffling through 150 SAT questions will eat up a few valuable minutes. Sticking to one page will help you save time and might give you that extra edge in the exam. On top of that, the act of bubbling in an answer choice seems to “reset” you mentally and could mess with your rhythm if you’re on a roll.

You don’t have to paint a pretty picture: It should take you about one second to fill in a bubble with your pencil—any longer than that and you’re needlessly wasting time. The Scantron machines that grade the tests don’t need perfect bubbles to score your test correctly, so don’t worry about making it neat.

Difficult/confusing question? Skip it.

If you find a question that is confusing or is taking more time than expected, skip the question immediately and come back to it once you have finished the entire. wasting a lot of time on just one difficult question might lead you to leave a few easy questions. now who wants that?

Don’t you know the directions already?

You should already know the directions for every section and every problem type from taking practice tests and studying for the SAT. Unless the SAT makes a major change to its test (which you would know far in advance), there’s no reason to re-read directions for any section on the SAT. That wastes valuable problem-solving time.

Steal time from earlier questions.

make sure that you are allocating time to every question on the basis of their difficulty level. The math and writing sections tend to increase in difficulty from the start of the section to the end of the section. Do not waste an entire minute on the easy question, do not spend more than 35-40 minutes on the easy questions. About a minute should be the questions with medium level difficulty and about 90 seconds – two seconds should be given to questions with a high level of difficulty.