Hint 1 - Time
This is a TM4T exercise, so time management is important. You have 55 minutes, and you want to finish within that limit. However, you need to remember that in the real world you aren't working to a fixed time scale. Ideally you want to finish all your admin early, and still have time left over to do some lesson planning!! You want to seek speed, brevity and clarity in everything you do. Don't write essays!
Hint 2 -Â Routine
This is an admin exercise, and it worth thinking a little about what admin actually means, and what it involves. At its most basic, it involves three simple things in sequence:
Read-Write-File. In other words, for each piece of admin:
a) you need to read it (or decide not to read it)
b) write something (or decide not to)
c) do something with the item (return it, pass it on, file it, or bin it)
In addition, of course, you may need to take action (Shock-horror: actually DO something). However, the great tedium of doing admin is that this is relatively rare: a lot of the routine is Read-Write-File. However, even this simple path has pitfalls, and you should think about the most efficient sequence for doing your Read-Write-Files.