Can't display my Countdown timer text on my end menu. (newbie needing help)

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“The component with the Text I need”

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class Countdwn : MonoBehaviour {

public float cntTime = 300f;
public float seconds, minutes;
public Text timeText;

// Use this for initialization
void Start()
{
    timeText = GetComponent<Text>();
}

void Update()
{ cntTime -= Time.deltaTime;
    minutes = (int)(cntTime / 60f);
    seconds = (int)(cntTime % 60f);
    timeText.text = minutes.ToString("0") + "." + seconds.ToString("00");

    print(cntTime);

    if (cntTime < 0)

    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
    }

}

“The End Game Display Text”

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class FinalScore : MonoBehaviour
{
public float cntTime;
public Text timeText;

public void Start()
{
    timeText.GetComponent<Countdwn>
}
void Update
{
    get 
        (cntTime).Text 
}

}

Essentially what Im trying to do : I have a countdown timer in-game thats runs down to 0 and then restarts my game. This timer also displays its time as a Text to make it visible in-game. I want the same time to display on a separate text. Letting the player know what time they finished at.
I apologize if this is confusing as for I’m very green to this and I truly appreciate the help ahead of time.

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Hey =)

I’m still a beginner, too, so maybe this won’t be too helpful.

If you declare your variables as public, you can set them inside the inspector. This means: In this case, you don’t need to write something in your Start ()-function. Just drag and drop the text-field in the hirarchy into the corresponding “text”-field inside your inspector’s view of your gameObject. I think that should help with your script not finding the needed text-field.

Furthermore, I think you are missing some ; at the end of your lines in your second script.