For the pacing and time section of the SAT, there are 34 questions that need to be completed in 25 minutes for the first section. It is a good idea to go quickly when trying to identify sentence areas. Here are some ideas and tips to help with pacing on the SAT.
- Quickness will come with a knowledge of grammar. To gain speed it is important to know grammar inside and out. Knowing it well will help a test taker more quickly identify errors without having to think about it - like multiplication tables in math.
- It is very important to know when to move on to the next question and to not waste time on questions because there is a time limit. Taking too much time can negatively reflect on your overall SAT score in a bad way. Every question is worth the same amount of points on the SAT, so it makes sense to answer as many that you know the answer to quickly and get the most points.
- When crunched for time on the SAT, do the identifying sentence error section first to leave more time for improving sentence error questions. It is generally not a good idea to do the improving paragraph section first because it can be a time killer with a lot of reading and going from question to question.
- One other way to improve the overall time it takes to get through this section is to cancel the first answer choice as soon as something is thought to be wrong or weird about the question.
