mfross,
i have kind of a mini-method to rocking the SA section of the astb, it worked great for me, i didnt miss any of the questions, and i finished with at least 2 minutes to check over my work. what you have to do is break it down so you can eliminate a bunch of choices and get an answer really quickly. usually u can eliminate a lot of choices based solely on whether the plane is flying inland or out to sea. after you eliminate that, there's usually only 2 or 3 remaining, it becomes infinitely easier to get an answer. then you gotta look for climb or descent. after that, you look for bank and degree of bank, but usually by this point u know what the answer is already. i think that the problem people have is that they immediately look for bank, which makes it exponentially more difficult. if you practice the SA in that order, as opposed to bank first, or everything at once, then you'll get thro it with minutes to spare