Save time-consuming questions for last

If you are not, under any circumstances, willing to jump around within sections, then please skip this article. If you are willing to do so, however, this is a strategy you might want to try. Its based on the principle that since (1) you have a limited amount of time, and that (2) every question, easy or hard, is worth exactly the same number of points, your goal should be to obtain as many points as quickly as possible. However: since reading questions are presented in no particular order of difficulty, you need to do a little bit of work upfront to identify questions likely to take you a while to answer before you get caught up in them and waste a couple of minutes better spent answering two or three other questions quickly. While I do understand that different questions are hard for different people, the following types of questions generally tend to be more time-consuming than others because it is very difficult to answer them based on a general knowledge of the passage; you must almost always go back and read carefully. -Which of the following? I, II, and III These tend to take the most time, so they should be the last questions you do. Especially on the ACT, where you can go crazy trying to locate the necessary information. -Paired passage relationship questions   Usually these require multiple steps of logic. The good news is that they come after individual-passage questions, so you dont have to hunt for them. -ACT questions that ask about dates or years. Although these questions may seem straightforward, the exact information rarely appears directly in the passage, and it is often necessary to perform some basic calculations in order to determine the answer. -All of the following EXCEPT   While you can often eliminate a couple of answers based on your memory of the passage, theres often no way to be certain unless you go back and hunt for the others. -Graphic/passage questions on the SAT Particularly if youre not ask comfortable with graph-based questions as you are with text-based questions, its a good idea to leave these questions until after youve answered all of the other questions in a set.