Hi again,
How did you manage your time in the Business Studies HSC exam? How did you spend the reading time? People say to do the multiple choice first, but others say to start planning the essay and business report. What did you do?
Hey Grace!
I think it is very critical to effectively manage your time in the exam. This becomes easier if you know your syllabus inside out so I honestly can't even stress enough how important it is. In the reading time I immediately flipped to the essay questions and chose the question I was going to do. I then had a quick skim of the business report and short answers and then, had a look at the multiple choice and started doing them in my head if time permits.
Yes, multiple choice is important but so is the business report and essay. Literally as soon as the person running the exam says 'start' I planned my business report and essay for just 5 minutes before I started the multiple choice. The benefit of this is, is that when you actually get to those sections you don't spend like 10 minutes thinking about what you want to write about but rather you can jump straight into writing.
In terms of how I managed my time in the exam, it sort of went like this:
* 1 hour for multiple choice and short answer
* 1 hour for business report
* 1 hour for business essay.
Obviously, this was flexible and would change depending on the difficulty of the exam.
Hope this helps!