Marcia,

>It must be even tougher trying to take one that is not in your native language.

Yes, but this isn't enough for be a good excuse, I knew that. :)

>I agree with you that some of those questions were way too long. What I did with those was read the last line of the question first so I could go back to the top and ignore all the stuff that didn't make any difference to the answer.

hehe, that was my first try but after that, sometimes I must revised the entire question.