This clearly shows that your genuine understanding of the content is there, and that’s the hardest part! I think you should be proud of your score, especially your blind review, as that most closely reflects your conceptual understanding. In my opinion, this timed score likely represents some combination of testing jitters from looking at the clock and answering inefficiency. Luckily, both are very totally addressable. For my testing jitters, I physically put a piece of tape over the timer. I didn’t remove or change it, but simply took it out of my vision. Funnily enough, this not only reduced my feeling of being rushed, but over time, allowed me to actually feel my pace without relying on the clock.

Regarding answering efficiency, what ironically makes you answer questions “faster” is reading the stimulus more carefully (slower). The more you understand what the stimulus is giving you, the quicker you become at answering questions because the stimulus essentially answers them for you. Whether it’s an inference or assumption question, understanding what the stimulus is saying, what’s important about it, and how to approach the particular question type will eliminate almost all of the wrong answers and usually lead you to a genuinely confident answer. Basically, I think you should be very happy about this result. Focus on slowing things down, because once you get good at that, it will actually speed things up!

Not sure why you'd make this change before implementing an "All Notes" function. Regardless of whether someone used this feature or not, it didn't add any clutter. Now, for those who used the Notes tab for things outside of specific lessons, we simply can't. I would use this section for rough notes on miscellaneous tasks, thought processes, or things I wanted to clean up before formally adding them. Now, all of that has simply been deleted because it wasn't tied to a specific lesson.

I see this as a mild inconvenience for some users and irrelevant to others, so I'm not really sure what problem this change was intended to solve.