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About this tool
Plan a fast first pass and a focused second pass across a question paper, with per-question seconds for each round.
This planner turns the two-pass attempt strategy used across competitive-exam coaching into concrete numbers: it splits your working time between a fast first sweep of every question and a second pass over the ones you flagged, then tells you the seconds-per-question pace each round demands. Aspirants preparing for SSC, banking, JEE, CAT or any objective paper set the time split and expected flag rate and get a plan they can rehearse in mocks.
Open Two Round Attempt Planner on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
Each round gets a seconds-per-question figure you can actually rehearse against a stopwatch.
Round 2 pace is computed over only the flagged subset, not the whole paper.
OMR transfer and final-check minutes are excluded from both rounds so the plan is realistic.
It is a two-pass method: in round 1 you sweep every question quickly, answering only those you are sure of and flagging the rest; in round 2 you return to the flagged questions with the remaining time. It guarantees all easy marks are banked before any time is risked on hard questions.
Coaching convention gives the first sweep roughly 60-70% of working time. On a 180-minute, 100-question paper with a 65% split and a 10-minute buffer, round 1 gets about 110 minutes — roughly 66 seconds per question.
The moment it exceeds your round 1 per-question budget or you realise it needs more than one read to set up. Flagging is not giving up — flagged questions get a much bigger time budget in round 2, often nearly double the round 1 pace.
It is designed for objective papers where questions are independent and quick to re-enter. Descriptive papers are usually better served by a mark-weighted section plan, since long answers cannot be cheaply revisited.