After receiving the test paper, these students would first browse through the entire paper, then decide the order in which they would tackle the questions. They took longer before beginning to answer, but when they did start, they already had a firm idea of how to proceed and had already decided on strategies and methods for answering.
蔣家唐研究發現，對於習慣花較長時間釐清題意的學生而言，充裕的作答時間代表了完整的思考規劃，因為他們拿了考卷之後，會先行瀏覽一遍再決定作答順序，所以下筆較遲，但下筆時已有定見，心中大致規劃好作答的策略與方法。