[nemo44x]

It’s good training for test taking in general. Read every question before starting. Then solve the ones you find easy first.

Many people are “bad at tests” because they get stuck on something, panic, waste all their time and then blow the test.

[guitarbill]

I used to do the opposite, start from the back where the bigger/harder questions where when I was still fresh, and work backwards(?) to the easier questions with fewer points. Agree that leaving a question half finished with enough space to come back to it and finish it is also a good idea, instead of getting stuck and demoralised.

In any case, I think it's fair to say that reading all of the test, thinking about how you want to approach it, and not just blindly following the ordering provided is going to be better than a naive approach - no matter what ordering is chosen.

[nemo44x]

Indeed - just make sure you read it all first and then solve whatever you find most comfortable solving.

For me I found that doing the ones I knew immediately how to solve first and then going back to the ones I didn’t quite get at first made those easier when revisiting. I think maybe getting my brain into context made referencing that information possible and possibly by reading them and moving on, it gave my brain some time to begin processing them. No idea though.

Same idea applies to IKEA assembly. Read all the directions first.