What happens if I stop speaking before the time is up?

Nothing interrupts you. The recording continues until the window closes, so silence is not a technical error, but relevance and completeness of content are scored, and a half-finished answer reads as incomplete. Spend spare seconds on one concrete detail, and never restart an answer you have already begun.

The recorder keeps running until the window closes, so silence is not a technical fault. But relevance and completeness are published criteria, and an answer that stops half way reads as incomplete, because raters score what they hear. Spend spare seconds on one concrete detail rather than a second topic; a full answer given slowly beats a rushed one that opens a new idea.

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