Having trouble with timed assessments

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I did a timed assessment today (I've done some in the past). I would have been great at it, had I not had like 6 or so minutes to do 20 questions. Some of them were math, some were number patterns, some were other things. I did fine at first, but when I started to get toward 2 minutes and lower, the time pressure sent my mind to mush.

Am I the only one that has these issues or have others here had that same problem?

When I pay attention to the time I get slower so I try to check time as rarely as possible - I just focus on the task.

Fortunately as long as the test is well made I usually end in 1/3 to 2/3 of time (for example if I have a hour I will finish within 20-40mins) so I don't have to stress about that. Unless I am distracted by something. For example during my "Matura" math exam could really use some more time because I had a fever at that time and couldn't focus. I probably should have say something to my teachers back then and do the test some other day but I didn't know it is possible.

In my country people with diagnosed ASD have 50% or so more time on timed assessments although I never used that option. I got diagnosed at 25 so I couldn't use it on exams in regular school(I wish I could do on the math "Matura") and in college I was always the one finishing first of my whole class because I was very interested in the lessons and just knew all the answers so there was no need.

Recently I had a chance to do some timed tests for job recruitment. There were 4 tests. First 3 I finished way faster than the time limit (50-60% of time), getting 100% score. The last one was harder - it was 100 yes/no questions, 5 seconds per answer and I lost just one of them by running out of the 5 secs limit (I felt like I need 6 secs for that one) but I scored 85% overall and I wasn't too happy with it so I tried again - this time I got 100% and my answering was like a machine gun, 1-2secs per question.

If it was all just regular math, I'd do fine. But some of it was like guess the next number in the sequence. I'd have done better if I didn't have like 6 or so minutes to complete 20 questions.

I did better on the "tell the difference one" where you had to look closely at something and see if it was similar or different. Other than running out of time on question 18, I think I got 1-17 all right on the second part. On the first part, around the middle, I had to start guessing as it was taking too long on some questions.

While I got more time in school, on online job assessments, I don't.

OP, What is this job you have that requires you to do timed assessments. Does the assessment affect your wage?

Research has proven that faster mental processing does NOT equate to higher IQ.
For many years ppl thought it did, and the myth is persistent.