<p>… you want to know whether you are “keeping up” with everyone? </p>
<p>Like at times I don’t want to know what their bloody answers are, but I have this urge to steal a glance to see whether they’ve finished the second free response question or whether they’re currently still on the first (so I know whether to speed up or whether I can take more time).</p>
<p>I have a twin, and I look at where she is in the question packet to make sure that I’m pacing right (and if I’m two pages ahead of her it means that I’ve missed something). The way the AP exams are administered at our school, we sit across a lunch table from each other due to the fact that we’re always together when they order people alphabetically. But I don’t look at her answer sheet, because she’s also smarter than me and that would be too much temptation…</p>
<p>I tend to want to do that. Because we sit so close to each other during AP tests, I can see how far the person next to me is with my peripheral vision.</p>
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<p>Haha, for a moment I was confused because you can interpret that statement in two different ways. (“But why would you want to confirm that he’s half a metre away…?”)</p>
<p>Yeah, I do it too sometimes. But I try to avoid it because it looks like you’re cheating, and that would suck to get caught when you weren’t trying to cheat.</p>
<p>I know I do. It’s just an easy way to see whether I am pacing myself correctly. Is it my fault the smartest kid in my class is sitting right next to me meaning it would look more like cheating? I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Not especially. Making me doubt my answers and possibly getting in trouble isn’t something I’m that interested in.</p>
<p>I don’t answer everything in order usually, so I can’t check with someone who may or may not be doing the same. I pace myself with a good ol’ clock.</p>
<p>I skip around on the math/sci exams and do the easiest ones first, so it doesn’t work for me.</p>
<p>aaand I’ll get unnerved and distracted if I notice that other people are already done while I’m still working.</p>
<p>sometimes its not that great to look over 'cause during the ap ush exam i looked up when we had 30 minutes left during the dbq/frq section and i saw half the room with their heads down. It made me second guess my timing and made me really nervous, but luckily I remembered the at a glance section that tells us how long this section is and I realized that I still had lots of time left and that the rest of the students had just given up.</p>