The 95-minute stamina plan

You have about $8$ minutes per passage. Check the clock at three points, not after every question.

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The budget

\frac{95}{12}=7.92\text{ minutes per passage}

Three checkpoints

After	Elapsed	Decision
Passage $4$	About $32$ minutes	Settle your method
Passage $8$	About $63$ minutes	Protect the final third
Passage $11$	About $87$ minutes	Finish passage $12$ before flags

Answer, then flag

Cross out what the passage defeats.
Pick the best answer now. Wrong answers lose nothing.
Flag only with a precise note, such as 'B says always, passage says often'.
Move on.

Worked example Audit one slow passage

Passage $6$ takes $11$ minutes, about $3$ over budget. Passage $7$ is short, so at the next checkpoint you are $1$ minute $20$ seconds behind. What now?

Why this works: Carry on. You have already recovered most of the time.

Why the tempting route fails: Rushing every remaining question to win back the full $3$ minutes costs marks you would have got.

Build stamina over four weeks

Week $1$ : two-passage sets.
Week $2$ : four-passage sets.
Week $3$ : eight-passage sets, through the one-hour dip.
Week $4$ : one full $12$ -passage run, then repair.

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