[grammarian]

it is quite interesting to read about varied test experiences of students.i believe the ambience does make a lot of difference to the way you approach the whole thing,if not playing a direct role in making your performance better or worse.recently,some one told me about his mock test experience; there was no timer on the test due to some software deficiency.so the person had to consult an ordinary watch to keep track of the time. but in the verbal part the guy did extremely below par..he ofcourse blamed the lack of a proper countdown timer as the reason of such a shoddy performance in verbal.how much do you people feel, is the effect of a timer being missing,on the performance in especially the verbal part where there is a greater time crunch??