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Do you take the full amount of test time? POLL

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When do you turn in your "test"?

  • I always turn it in before time runs out

  • I always turn it in as time runs out

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Matthiasa said:
Hmmm, here the math majors take just as much time on tests as the engineering majors. 😛
To such an extent that if someone fails out of engineering they usually just switch to math. 😛
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one of my undergrad degrees is in math and when i took complex analysis half the class was ee grad students. it made things really difficult for us undergrads, a couple of those guys would get nearly perfect scores on the exams no matter how difficult the questions were. they were better students than the average math undergrad without a doubt. when i took numerical analysis there were lots of cs people and it was a similar situation
 
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I completed a 250 question CISSP exam in just over two hours. Six hours are allotted for taking the exam. I passed, even though I was sure I failed.
 
I never take the entire alloted time. If I know the answer, I know it immediately. If I don't know the aswer, I don't know it; or at least I'll never be able to ascertain the answer with any degree of certainty beyond that of my first impression.

It usually doesn't take long to answer the ones I know and guess the rest.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I never take the entire alloted time. If I know the answer, I know it immediately. If I don't know the aswer, I don't know it; or at least I'll never be able to ascertain the answer with any degree of certainty beyond that of my first impression.

It usually doesn't take long to answer the ones I know and guess the rest.
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i think a lot of people do this but i think if you try to write something down it often gets your brain going and will help you answer a question you might have thought you didnt know the answer to. also at least you have a chance of getting some partial credit if you try to answer it, some of my instructors gave a few points for effort. seriously, NEVER leave a question blank
 
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SlitheryDee said:
I never take the entire alloted time. If I know the answer, I know it immediately. If I don't know the aswer, I don't know it; or at least I'll never be able to ascertain the answer with any degree of certainty beyond that of my first impression.

It usually doesn't take long to answer the ones I know and guess the rest.
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Weird. I've had tests where I come to a question, have no clue how in the world to do it, skip it, and then complete it perfectly when I come back to it at the end.
 
Most of my classes I finished my exams way early, turned it in and left. For Biological science I often also had the highest score.

For some of my math classes, I'd be in the middle to last group to turn in...I'd often go back and recheck my answers at least once though.
 
i turn it in when I know I'm not going to get a high score by pouring over it more. I usually finish it, go back and check the really tricky bits, and then hand it in.

one prof wouldn't let me leave so i had a nap.
 
rudeguy said:
never

I do much better going with my first instinct. If I go back and change an answer, I'm sure to get it wrong.
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This. Almost always the first one done. Unless somebody just sits there for 20 minutes waiting for somebody else to finish and turn it in so they don't feel all weird being first every time.

If I don't know an answer, sitting there thinking about it doesn't help. If I do know it, I know it immediately.
 
Never took the full time. In college I was usually among the first few people to leave and I walked out with a 3.88 GPA. In my most recent job, I finished the training materials so quickly and whipped through the quizzes and classroom content so fast that the instructor asked me to validate the training materials and correct errors, as a side project.

Both those situations are in my chosen arenas though. Anytime I'm faced with a topic I don't have a natural aptitude for (such as, say, the higher math that a lot of you guys are good at), I spend a LOT more time on it. I just don't tend to put myself in educational or professional situations where I'm timed on results on those topics.
 
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