Time management during CHS exam — how fast are you supposed to go?
Did a full timed practice test today and ran out of time with 8 questions left. Definitely have a time management problem.
The CHS - Certified Hospitality Supervisor exam has 121 questions and the time limit is 101 minutes by my understanding. That works out to roughly 73 seconds per question — which should be doable except I keep stopping on "CHS exam" type questions.
My bad habit: I over-analyze questions I'm unsure about rather than making a best guess and moving on.
Any strategies that worked for you? Specifically:
- Do you go through once and skip hard questions to come back to?
- How many questions on "CHS" should I expect — is it worth the time investment?
- Is the real exam usually easier to pace than practice tests, or harder?
I'm good enough on the content, I think — it's purely pacing that's failing me.
If you're looking for a starting point, the free chs staff management leadership is worth trying — the questions closely match what you'll see on test day.
Passed CHS 2 months ago. Happy to share what I remember.
On the "CHS exam" stuff specifically — I found the practice tests here were actually harder than the real exam on those questions. Which was great because going in I felt more prepared than I needed to be.
The time pressure is real though. I came in with maybe 8 minutes to spare and that was after skipping the ones I wasn't sure about and coming back.
Don't try to cram the night before. Seriously. Last-minute stress makes you second-guess things you actually know.
Coming back to this thread — just passed my CHS yesterday. Everything about the chs practice test section is accurate. For anyone still studying, the free chs staff management leadership was the closest thing to the real exam I found.
Failed first attempt, came back to this thread. The consensus on chs practice test being the make-or-break area is right. Focusing almost exclusively on applied questions this time around.
The advice about understanding why wrong answers are wrong — not just memorizing right ones — is genuinely the best CHS advice in this thread. Rebuilt my prep around that and it made a real difference.
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