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Is it better to start from the back of the paper?

Does starting with harder questions on an exam paper hinder your performance?

Not in Maths Exams but I find that by starting from the back, there's less pressure mounted when attempting the harder questions at the end meaning that in comparison, I do better this way which seems more convenient to me. I did this for History GCSE and scored even better than I had anticipated :smile:

But really, it's a matter of preference.

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Original post by MajorFader

Does starting with harder questions on an exam paper hinder your performance?

If you have never tried that approach before then it would be a mistake to experiment with it in an exam that matters. It's very easy to squander a lot of exam time on the hard questions at the end of say a maths GCSE paper which then puts you under pressure and leaves you with insufficient time to get all of the easier marks at the start of the paper.

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