Having to move to another section when time was called and not being able to go back later if there was extra time was unfamiliar. I didn't like the feeling of being forced to finish something that I knew I could complete better with more time. Even worse was the guessing aspect of the test; is set up so that any incorrect answer is a deduction that forces students to evaluate whether a particular question is worth answering. It became, in a certain sense, necessary to know the tricks of the test; when the odds were good enough to guess and when it was better to simply let the question slide so as not to risk a deduction. I wanted to make an educational guess for any question I didn't know the answer to, I didn't like the feeling of having to gauge how confident I was in every bubble I filled
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