Well just had my first term test for csc236 today and went fairly decent. Some problems arised trying to figure out the Fibonnaci question which led to poor time management for the rest of the questions. I understood the question, but slightly had my understanding of the question a tad off. It had said "...greater than 5"! For some odd reason, I was thinking greater or equal to 5 which then completely made me loose track of where I was in the proof (even though it was a small fix, but sometimes its the small things that cause the most problems). I wish I could have finished the test, as I knew the answer to the last question I wrote but due to my lack of time management, I paid for it. Good thing that this will probably go towards the lower breakdown of the course and also good thing that i have my A1 mark to back up any faults I may have had during this test.
Time management has been one of my flaws for many of the tests I've done. Its either I get too caught up in a question (like this one today) or if I don't know the answer but have to do bunch of scratch work to come to the answer, it takes up too much of my time. Although my friends have offered advice on how to deal with this, in what way do you find to manage your time better? If you have 10 minutes left and you have two questions (but each take 10 minutes at least on it), do you dedicate your time on one of the two or split your time in half for both even though you know you can't finish?
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i would have written the proof structure for both, then try to finish the easier one, and then finish the other one, or leave little comments on how to do it since we get some marks for writing a proof structure
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