When I took the PRF exam, there were 120 questions.

I could have tried to answer them all.

I didn't.

I answered 102 questions, left 18 blank, and only got 8 wrong.

Result:

94 correct answers - 8 incorrect answers = 86 net points.

And I even managed to ace Portuguese and Official Writing.

In that exam format, it wasn't enough to know the content. You needed to know how to manage risk.

A question I wasn't confident about answering could turn a point gained into a point lost.

Therefore, my exam wasn't based on marking everything.

It was based on three things:

content, strategy, and emotional control.

Sometimes, exam maturity also means knowing which questions you shouldn't answer.

That's how I built my 86 net points on the PRF exam.

And it's this kind of practical experience that I want to bring here: not just the subject matter, but what really happens when you sit down to take the exam.

COMMENT here: would you mark everything or manage the risk?

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