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A timed section can be paused. The screen blanks so nothing can be read while the clock is held, and there is a cap on how long a pause can run.
The clock is authoritative on the server, and the page re-syncs to it. This matters: a browser tab in the background is throttled by the operating system and a sleeping device stops counting altogether, so a timer that lived only in the page could drift badly. If you have ever seen a clock jump, that is the failure it now prevents.
If a timer still looks wrong, report it through the Help button with the exam name and roughly when it happened.
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