Question Prioritisation

Not all VR questions are equally difficult, and not all passages are equally time-consuming. Question prioritisation is the art of directing your effort towards the questions you are most likely to answer correctly, while minimising time spent on questions that are unlikely to yield correct answers. In a test where every question is worth the same mark, this is a powerful strategy.

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The Prioritisation Principle

Answering three easy questions correctly is worth more than spending the same time on one hard question and getting it wrong.

This means you should:

1. Identify which questions and passages are likely to be easier
2. Allocate more time to those
3. Flag or quickly guess on the harder ones

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Passage Difficulty: How to Assess in Seconds

Within the first 3–5 seconds of encountering a passage, you can estimate its difficulty based on: