A question that's been bugging me a while...

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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I took the January SAT last year, and that is the one that I will be sending to colleges. I received a 640-640-740, on the M-CR-WR scale. It's not in the 2300's like you CCer's have, but I am pleased with my score.</p>

<p>Now, the reason for my thread is that I've always had this gut feeling deep down that I should have left critical reading multiple choice questions blank, instead of just answering them. I was well advised to skip if you don't have a clue at all on any question, and I did that on the math; however, I found it very hard to skip questions on passage based (not sentence completion) critical reading. Whenever I thought about answers, I always had an "inkling," albeit not a very strong one. Thus, I guessed when I wasn't 100% positive on many MC passage based CR questions.</p>

<p>Here's a shot of my score report:</p>

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<p>If you had to estimate, what would my score have been if I had not guessed as much as I did on the passage based CR? It's annoying, because I had an 18/19 on the SC! Why oh why did I get those 11 questions wrong when I should have left them blank?!?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>“Thus, I guessed when I wasn’t 100% positive on many MC passage based CR questions.”</p>

<p>This is a statistically solid decision. If you can eliminate two or more answers, guessing is the right way to go.</p>

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<p>Think about it this way – are you going to retake the test? If not, then there’s no point in asking yourself this question.</p>

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<p>Why would you want your question to be answered?</p>

<p>You’ll only be kicking yourself even more than it seems you already are.</p>

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<p>if you left those 11 questions blank, you would add 3 more points to the raw score which would then be a 55. after looking at some Official conversion charts, your score then would be around 670-680.</p>

<p>But, you can never blame yourself for something like this. Congratulations on the SC btw, how did you prepare for it?</p>