Did a full timed practice test today and ran out of time with 5 questions left. Definitely have a time management problem.
The REM - Real Estate Management exam has 99 questions and the time limit is 95 minutes by my understanding. That works out to roughly 63 seconds per question — which should be doable except I keep stopping on "REM 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 "REM" 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.
Passed REM 6 months ago. Happy to share what I remember.
On the "REM 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.
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