It’s very helpful to have an intuitive understanding of what 1:45 feels like.

You don’t want to be checking the clock during and after every question you solve. Doing so would be incredibly distracting and potentially nerve-racking. It’s better to have a general feel for how long you’ve spent on a question.

One way to develop this intuition is to practice timed sets of GRE quant questions in the latter portion of your prep. Start a timer when you start work on a question. When you think 1:45 is up, look at the timer to see how close you were to the actual time. Your goal is to get a comfortable intuition for what 1:45 feels like. The more you practice this simple exercise, the easier it will be for you to accurately gauge how much time you have to continue working on a problem.

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep