<p>im not familiar with the SAT point system....but wasn't it -1 for answering incorrectly and -1/4 for omitting on the old SAT? (not 100% sure)</p>
<p>but i just took the new one and the back of the book it said -1 for omitting and -1/4 for answering incorrectly(multiple choice questions only) so if you do the math isn't it better to answer them all get the -1/4s instead of the -1s?</p>
<p>btw i feel stupid asking this >_< and insults are welcome</p>
<p>There has always been a -1/4 guessing penalty, but no penalty for skipping a question.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>you don't lose points for omitting...
-1/4 for incorrect answers
gain one for correct answers</p>
<p>yes bluthunder06, you do in fact "lose" points for omitting, see what happens is say there are 54 math questions, and you omit 5, then your total number CORRECT so far is already down to 48, now if you get say 4 wrong, then it would be 4 x -1/4 = -1, so now your down to 47, that is your raw score, then you check on the scale to see what that is..</p>
<p>The scoring system depends on your point of view. If your looking from the top down, every ommision is a point off (this is if your a high scorer, 600-800). If your looking from down up, every correct question is a point gained (this is if your a low/medium scorer, 200-600). Its all about perspective and the whole pessimistic optimistic thing (half empty or half full)</p>
<p>Wait a second. If you miss one, then you lose 1 full point from the total number of correct available. In other words, say I omit 10 questions and answer 10 incorrectly out of 50. That means you can only get 30 out of 50 questions correct, and you have to subtract (10/4) from the total correct. If this is not true, then I should have most definitely guessed. :*(</p>
<p>programmer, your getting the scoring mixed too lol...okay look, if you omit 10 questions, and answer 10 incorrectly on say all 54 questions for the math section..this means your raw score automatically goes to 43 CORRECT, because of the 10 you ommited, now you answer 10 incorrently, so there's a guessing penalty of -1/4 for each one, so thats 10 x -1/4 = -2.5...so you subtract 2.5 from 43 = 40.5, now thats your unrounded raw score, you have to round that to get 41. 41 is your raw score for this example test, now you go to a conversion chart and check what 41 says and next to it is your scaled score, if this 41 were your raw score for lets say today, then using a scale i received from princeton review (oringally from collegeboard and most likely the scale they will use in todays test) then your scaled score for math would be 630. got it?</p>
<p>Omg I Did So Much Better On All My Practice Test Than I Previously Thought Omg That Is So Totally Freagen' Awesome Wowowowowowoowowowoowowowoowowoow </p>
<p>Why Oh Why Didn't I Guess Now I Hate Myself Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1</p>
<p>o ****tttt, whoops, i def. made a slight math error in my calculations, uhm, sorry about thatttttt, wow i feel so bad, um when you go from 43 because its the number after 10 ommitted, then you have to subtract 10 more because you didnt get those right, so now your at 32 CORRECT, then you have to subtract -1/4 for each one you got wrong which means 32 - 2.5 = 29.5 which is rounded to 30 which is a 540 on todays test...ah sorry man i made a mistake on that one, its kinda late here in jersey.</p>
<p>Wait a second. If what you say is true (here we go again ;) ), then that means that if I guessed on all of them, and I got 20 of them wrong, then my raw score is:</p>
<p>54 - ((20*.25)) = 49</p>
<p>That doesn't make sense....</p>
<p>Yea that's kinda what I said before.... :[ ...</p>
<p>You got my hopes up aw :(</p>
<p>if you guessed on all 54 questions, and got 20 wrong and left 0 blank, then you would have 33 correct, now you have to subtract 20 x 1/4 = 5pts for guessing penality which is 33 - 5 = 28, get it?</p>
<p>too...much...math...</p>
<p>lol it was a simple question y'all...</p>
<p>you confused me indian >_<
you start off with 54 questions then how do you get to 43?</p>
<p>lol. Just think of it this way: If you don't answer a question, you lose the point for that question. If you guess on a question and get it wrong, you lose the point for the question plus an additional 1/4 point penality.</p>
<p>I hope that clears it up for you? I wonder if I sound confusing like those above haha =P</p>
<p>Definitely guess. However, I think that I might have guessed too aggressively. I hope that it worked out to my advantage.</p>
<p>omg thx penguin that was the most understandable answer ever after like 10 posts, no examples or anything XD
so it was better to omit than straight out guessing....grrr i messed up so bad...at least i got 2 more tries !!</p>
<p>btw can someone post a link of the conversion chart indian was talking about? thx in advance !</p>
<p>there wasn't a link, i just typed up the upper halves of the conversian chart that princeton review gave me, and it was orginally from collegeboard's field test, the chart pretty much takes all the ranges on the "official sat guide" and uses the half score, so if a range said 700-800 for a particular raw score, then the score is 750...that's what will most likely occur for the march 12th sat test...</p>
<p>Raw Score-Scaled Score
Math:54-800, 53-790, 52-760, 51-740, 50-720, 49-710, 48-700, 47-680, 46-670...and so forth</p>
<p>Critical Reading: 67-800, 66-800, 65-790, 64-770, 63-750, 62-740, 61-730, 60-720, 59-700, 58-690, 57-690, 56-680...and so forth</p>
<p>Writing: 73 to 69- 800, 68-780, 67-770, 66-760, 65-750, 64-740, 63-730, 62-720, 61-710, 60-700, 59-700, 58-690, 57-680...and so forth</p>
<p>Grammer Sub Score: 49-80, 48-80, 47-80, 46-79, 45-78, 44-76, 43-74, 42-73....and so forth</p>