choosing the questions for guessing

[adhithya2007]

I basically use the mgmat timing strategy in tests and find it to be good.In the recent test(mgm3 ) i had taken 15 mins for the first 5 cr questions and due to this i hurried up on the next few sc questions and got all 3 of them wrong.So what would have been the correct way to get out that negetive time position
1)should i have spent time on those three sc questions(after the test i found that i could have answered only one of them correctly)
or was my approach correct
2)basically,what i want to know is that if one is in a -ve time position how does one decide which question to make a random guess on and which one to leave(i actually ended up random guessing on some simple questions and ended up chooisng some tough questions to answer).
after assesing the first 3 tests that i am not particularly weak in any area eg. it is not that say iam weak in weakening questins,so I can easily choose weakening questions to random guess.Due to this i find it particularly diffficult to choose which questions to leave and end up spoiling my time mgmt.

Please help

[jnelson0612]

15 minutes for 5 CR questions isn't *that* terrible. Yes, you are a little behind, but you should assume 2:20 for each CR. So you were 3:20 behind coming out of those five questions. At that point I probably would decide to guess one of the next few questions; maybe if I saw a really long SC with the entire sentence underlined with no obvious splits I would guess on that one. Or I would decide that I was definitely guess on some specific questions in RC.

So my answers:
1) Probably plan to guess at least one next time.
2) This is something you should plan for ahead of time. I know that you think that you don't have a particular weak area, but if you carefully investigate you'll probably find that a particular question type is a little more difficult for you than other question types. For example, you now know that you tend to spend too much time on CR; maybe determine what your weakest CR question type is (from assumption, weaken, strengthen, draw a conclusion) and decide to skip that particular type if you need to. Another area people are often weak in is Reading Comp-specific and inference, particularly in science passages.

The most important thing is to not let any one question derail your timing, but to keep moving so you can finish strong.