Well, I remember when my sister was very little, maybe 1st grade, the teacher realized my sister was counting her fingers and lines on paper, and not really memorizing math at all, because she was taking long to complete her tests. She was getting the answers correct, but really wasn’t quite on level in how she was processing the work. The time was a clue for the teacher to watch her. My sister caught right up to grade level eventually.
Most tests weren’t timed when I was in school. The only tests that I remember were the SAT’s and tests I have taken for applying for a job. I guess both are seeing how you can budget your time, especially for a workplace. You need to be able to think fast enough, within reason. Moreover, cheating can take time or take no time. If I look up words I don’t know that will take more time to take the test. If I stole the answer sheet, that would take almost no time to answer, but I think it has more to do with what you know cold, rather than stealing an answer sheet. I’ve seen a lot of the tests my husband had to take and they are times and some of it is math, and not just 2 plus 2, and some is vocabulary, and not 8th grade vocabulary. You have to be able to keep up with the other executives in the company, and to be able to do the job at the work level expected. As a side note, it’s interesting to see how my husband answers, because especially some of the personality trait answers I would answer differently for myself than his answers for himself, and I don’t always guess right what he will answer for himself either. His math is always faster than I expect also. Maybe he uses math more at work than I realize. It is shocking how much I have forgotten. LOL.