Time management during DOG exam — how fast are you supposed to go?

Went through this exact question when I was prepping. The DOG material on "DOG" is actually not as bad as it looks — once it clicks it clicks.

What helped me was finding one resource that explained it from first principles instead of just giving me the "right answer." Made a huge difference on the scenario-based questions.

Also: don't underestimate the importance of reviewing your wrong answers more than your right ones. I learned more from 20 wrong answers than 200 correct ones.

The advice about understanding why wrong answers are wrong — not just memorizing right ones — is genuinely the best dog-training advice in this thread. Rebuilt my prep around that and it made a real difference.

For anyone finding this later: dog-training is passable with consistent effort even working full time. I studied 41 minutes a day for 9 weeks. The dog trainer test 2 kept me honest about my actual gaps.

Honestly I almost quit halfway through my prep because of exactly this. I'd do a timed test, hit that wall around question 90 or 100, and just watch the clock eat me alive. Same math you've got, roughly a minute per question, and it sounds fine on paper but it never felt fine in the moment. What actually fixed it for me wasn't going faster, it was learning to bail. If a question wasn't clicking in like 30 seconds I'd flag it, guess, and move on. You come back at the end with whatever time's left and suddenly you're not panicking anymore.

The other thing nobody tells you is that the first time you run out of time, it's not a time management problem, it's a familiarity problem. You're slow because you're still reading every question like it's brand new. Do enough practice tests and you start recognizing the patterns, and the speed just shows up on its own. I went from leaving 13 blank to finishing with like 8 minutes to spare. Didn't feel possible at the time. Keep going, it clicks way later than you'd expect but it does click.