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A former student offers this insight:

“ I just took the test this afternoon. Ended up with 101 questions, in  just under 95 minutes, and I passed (unless they decide they need to do  "psychometric" (lie detector?) or "forensic" evaluation). At that speed,  even if I had gotten the maximum number of questions I would have been  O.K. -- from what I've seen, many people report finishing with time to spare, so I would recommend not rushing. 

My experience was:  Lots of "BEST" and "MOST" questions. Definitely not a test to take just  based on knowing facts by rote. I did guess on some answers, but only  when I could eliminate some of the responses: and I found that often at  least one response would not make sense. I also tried to follow advice I  saw to "read the question, read the answers, and then read the question  again", since during practice tests I often picked the opposite of the  answer I knew to be right. 

I studied from the Chapple book, and the (ISC)2 flash cards, and by  taking lots of tests. For tests I had the companion book (which seemed  closest to the real test), and CCCure tests (which too often revealed  the answer in the question: but if taken with "Pro" mode and fill-in-the  blank answers was still useful (and gave easier statistics on which areas I needed further study in). It was important each time to go back  and understand my wrong answers -- that's where about 1/3 of my learning  happened. 

A note on CCCure tests & fill in the blank: unless you type the exact phrase in, it will count it as wrong, so review the results before you  decide how well you did. “

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