How to spend your seventy minutes so you actually reach question sixty.
If you gave every question the same seventy seconds you would technically finish, but that isn't how a real section goes. A definition question should take you twenty seconds. A two-step monopoly calculation might take ninety, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you banked the time somewhere else first.
Check the clock at question 20 and again at question 40. You want roughly 23 minutes gone at the first checkpoint and 47 at the second. If you're well past that, start moving faster on the ones you know.
Almost every question is asking about one specific corner of the course, and once you've placed it the approach usually comes with it. A question mentioning marginal revenue product is a factor markets question, which means you're hiring where MRP meets MFC, and you already know what the answer needs to look like before you've read a single choice.
When you can't place it, that's information too. It usually means the question is combining two units, and those are the ones worth flagging rather than grinding through on the first pass.
The four options are designed to be persuasive, and if you meet them before you've decided what you think, one of them will anchor you. Work out your own answer first, then go looking for it. It's a small habit that saves ten or fifteen seconds a question and stops you talking yourself out of things you knew.
Once you've picked an answer and moved on, leave it. Students change more correct answers to incorrect ones than the reverse, and the second-guessing eats time you needed for questions you hadn't reached yet.
The exception is finding an actual error, like realizing you read "decrease" as "increase." That's a reason to change. A vague feeling that another option looks appealing is not.
When you've been on a question for a minute and you're not closer than you were at thirty seconds, that's the signal. Flag it, pick whatever seems most plausible so you're not leaving it empty, and move.
Coming back later works better than most people expect. You'll have seen related questions by then, you're calmer, and you're reading it fresh instead of down whatever wrong path you started on. Sitting there for four minutes is how people end up guessing on the last eight questions of the section.
The digital exam gives you an answer eliminator, and it's worth using even when you know the answer. Ruling out two options takes a few seconds and turns a four-way decision into a coin flip you'll usually win. It also stops you rereading the same wrong choice three times on a question you come back to.
Questions asking which statement is not true, or which would be least likely, are where careless mistakes cluster. They read exactly like normal questions until you've answered them backwards. When you spot one, it's worth two extra seconds to register what's being asked before you start eliminating.
On calculation questions, glance at the choices once you know roughly what you're heading toward. If you're computing elasticity and every option is under 1 while your work is pointing at 2.5, you've inverted something, and it's much cheaper to catch that at step two than at step five.
There's no penalty for a wrong answer, so an empty bubble is strictly worse than a guess. If you're running out of time, spend the last thirty seconds filling in everything untouched rather than perfecting one more question.
Most people preparing for this exam study content, then walk in and lose points on questions they knew because they spent four minutes on question 12 and never reached question 58. Knowing the material and finishing the section are two different skills, and only one of them gets practiced.
That's what the drill is for. Pace mode moves on whether you're ready or not, which is uncomfortable for the first few sessions and then stops being uncomfortable, which is the point.