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Keep your eyes on your own paper, except for quick glimpses at your watch, so you can concentrate on the task at hand. If you glance around the room, you may see someone who has already finished. Then you’ll panic: Why is he done, and I’m only on Question 2? You don’t need this kind of idea rattling around in your head. Besides, that student may have skipped to the end. Also, wandering eyes open you to a charge of cheating.

You aren’t given extra scrap paper, but you are allowed to write all over the test booklet. Your booklet is your scratch paper, so mark it up! This is where you eliminate wrong answers (more on this in Chapter 3) and make notes. If you have two possible answers, circle the ones you’re considering, take a guess on the answer sheet, circle the question, and move on. Come back to the question at the end of the section if you have time — but you hardly ever have time, so it’s a good thing you took that guess.

In the Reading Test, where you skip around, the strategy is different and detailed in Chapter 3. However, in the Writing and Language Test and Math Tests, where you go straight through the questions, don’t leave an answer blank! Guess an answer, circle the question, and move on. If you get stuck on a question, you lose valuable time and may miss out on five questions at the end! Definitely not worth it, even if you get that one question right. If you leave an answer blank, you could lose track of which answer in the bubble sheet goes to which answer in the exam. I’ve seen it happen way too much. Also, because a wrong answer counts the same as an unanswered one, you may as well throw a mental dart and guess for a chance of getting it right. Since you’ve circled the question, you can go back to it later — but if time runs out, at least you’ve taken the guess!