Bank the early Math items. They are usually faster, and those points fund the harder ones later. This is a time split inside the 50 minutes, not a claim that later items are always harder. Order as a strategy is in Math question order.
Do not linger on number 8
If an early item stalls, skip it the same way you skip a late one, in the sixty-second skip. Two-pass still applies, in the two-pass method.
Checking a finished value is in plugging the answer back in.
The bottom line
Collect the first-half points quickly. Save the long algebra for the second pass.
Start practicing
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