At your desk, you can answer the question in four minutes. The exam gives you ninety seconds. That gap — between knowing and producing on demand — is where prepared students lose points they owned. Time pressure isn't a detail of the exam; it's half of what's being tested.

Accuracy first, speed second — always in that order

Timing a skill you don't have yet just rehearses failure. The sequence: learn it untimed, prove it untimed, then compress it. Once a topic passes the two-clean-passes test, it graduates to the clock.

And 'timed' doesn't mean one brutal mock. Ramp it: first at a comfortable pace with a visible clock, then at exam pace, then slightly under. You're building a reflex, not staging a crisis.

Two drills that build real speed

The ramp, scheduled