Who used a timer or wristwatch for AM L3?

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Usually I just use my normal wristwatch and place it on my exam table for each 3 hours session. This year, I used a digital watch too with a stop reset timer for the AM questions, so both to help with time mangement.
It was helpful to keep me from spending too much time on one question. Caved in and got one a week before the exam.
Anybody else used a digital stop/go counter? I had to manually de-beep mine.
 
I also used a digital watch. Have done so for all three levels, and I always find it helpful with time mangement. It is important to manually de-beep it (as you have done), this way youdon’t violate CFAI rules. I couldn’t find the right sized screw driver in my house, so I just took my watch to a small watch repair / shoeshine place and they ripped out the spring in the back.
Oddly enough, I typically don’t use the timer function. Instead I use the chronograph start/stop mode and watch the time go up to 3 hours. (Kind of like a European soccer game – time goes up instead of down). Not sure why I started doing this, but now it is what I am used to.
 
I did not use a wrist watch for L1 and L2 (which I both finished with 1.5-2 hours remaining) but used one in L3. I think having a watch was actually a disadvantage for me. I always looked at the watch whenever I finish a question. The 30-min interval announcements actually worked better for me than having a constant reminder of the exact time remaining.
 
I’ve always used a standard wrist watch, and reset the time to exactly 9:00:00 down the second as soon as they call “begin”. This allowed me to know exactly how many seconds I have left. really useful.
then afternoon session, I just do it again starting 12:00:00
 
Never used a watch for level I and II, but was glad to bring mine for the AM session. I was fine for the first few questions, then as I got to like 3-4 questions left and saw I had like an hour left, it kind of got me rolling better, and also helped me figure out it was best to skip something to finish two more whole questions and go back to the sub part I skipped with the last 5-7 minutes left.
 
Used one for all levels but for Level 3 AM it helped a lot for pacing. At the beginning of the exam I mark of the end of every hour’s worth of points so I know approximately where I need to be every 30&60 minutes.
 
I used one and also manually de-beeped it by removing the back cover and pulling out the spring.
During the AM exam I used the timer function for each question to see if I was going over/under time. I seemed a lot slower on the real exam than any of the practice ones, rarely did I finish a question with time to spare and only had about 5 minutes left at the end.
It was really heplful during practice tests to get a sense of my pace.
 
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