Guided Practice
Apply all your time management skills with guided exercises and a practice timer.
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Practice Makes Permanent
Good time management becomes automatic with practice. Use these exercises to build habits that will help you on test day!
Time Management Toolkit
90-Second Rule
If stuck after 90 seconds, mark it and move on.
Clock Checkpoints
Check time every 5-10 questions.
Skip and Return
Answer easy questions first, return to hard ones.
Two-Minute Warning
Fill in all blanks before time runs out.
Today's Goals
- Practice working under time pressure
- Build awareness of how long questions take
- Apply the skip-and-return strategy
- Develop confidence in your pacing
Timer Practice Tool
Use this timer to practice pacing yourself. Set it for 90 seconds per question!
Question Timer
Tip: When the timer goes yellow (30 seconds), start wrapping up. When it goes red (10 seconds), make your decision!
Practice Scenarios
For each scenario, choose the best time management decision.
You're on question 15 of 40 and have used half your time. What should you do?
You've been working on a word problem for 2 minutes and still can't figure it out. You're not sure if you should keep trying or move on.
There are 3 minutes left and you have 5 questions remaining. What's your best strategy?
You finish a 40-question test with 15 minutes to spare. What does this tell you?
Check Your Understanding
Complete this final 10-question quiz on time management!
Time Management Mastery Quiz
Quiz Complete!
Next Steps
Congratulations!
You've completed the Time Management unit! Here's what you've learned:
- How to pace yourself throughout a test
- When to skip questions and come back
- How to avoid common time management mistakes
- Strategies for the final minutes of a test
- Practice these strategies on every timed test you take
- Keep a time log to track your improvement
- Review the unit if any concepts need reinforcement
- Move on to the next SAT/ACT Skills unit!