Strategy

Accuracy before speed: the stage almost everyone skips

Speed is the easiest thing to build and the last thing you should build. This is why accuracy has to come first, and how to actually measure whether yours is improving.

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The mistake

Almost every aspirant does mocks in this order:

  1. Attempt as many questions as possible
  2. Check the score
  3. Feel bad
  4. Try to attempt even more next time

That loop makes you faster at being wrong. Negative marking means a wrong answer costs you roughly twice what leaving it blank does — so attempting more questions at 70% accuracy can actually lower your score.

The one number to track

Stop tracking your score for a few weeks. Track this instead:

Accuracy = correct ÷ attempted

Write it down after every mock, per section. That is it. If accuracy is below about 85% in a section, more speed in that section is wasted effort — you are just going to lose the extra marks to negatives.

What “practising accuracy” actually looks like

  • Do a set of 20 questions with no timer at all. Get 20/20.
  • Then do 20 with a generous timer. Get 20/20 again.
  • Only then tighten the timer.

It feels slow. It is the fastest route, because you are not paying the negative-marking tax on every mock along the way.

Where to practise this

Speed comes later, and it comes much faster than you expect once accuracy is already there.

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