<p>I am posting this thread in advance, just in case the result from the January 22nd SAT I come early.</p>
<p>** What score were you aiming for? **
At least a 1400--at least 650 in math, at least a 750 on verbal</p>
<p>** After taking the SAT, how do you think you did? **
I felt very good about the verbal, I'm feeling a 780 or something like that; the critical reading passages were pretty facinating (especially the one about increased iridium levels in layers of rock to account for dinosaur extinction) In one of the last sentence completions, I didn't even know what venacity meant, but all the other answers didn't make sense so I put that down. I later found out it meant corruption, which fit the meaning of the sentence.</p>
<p>Felt pretty good about the math sections, except the first one which I think I messed up on. I had no clue about one of the last problems which had two overlapping circles and a shaded region in between. I'll probably score lower than my goal of 650 :(</p>
<p>** Actual Score: ? **
I've been feeling antsy all day! :)</p>
<p>omg im so nervous.. i dont know if that means something is wrong with me or what... my first sat i got a 1150.. im hopeing this schore will go up to at least a 1350+ hopefully il break through 1400 but thats not likely.. unlike many people my life doesnt depend on this sat.. its merely a backup plan for if ( and when) i bomb the new sat version... well anyways i feel that my verbal section was pretty good.. not sure bout critical reading though.. i donno math might have been ok lol... i cant wait till tomoro.. good luck to all -- iv already checked collegeboard at least 10 times eventhough im pretty sure that tommorows the day</p>
<p>I'm wondering if any of you had a prep course or hired a tutor? This time (since it doesn't really matter--I'm a senior) I decided to go it alone and see how I'd do without professional help. Well almost. I asked my genius brother who scored a 1600 for help on a few math ?s in 10 Real SAT's.</p>
<p>why would you skip any? skipping is the same as filling in a random one., think about it, if you skip 20 out of 100, and get the rest right, you get 80 points. If you answer 80 correct and randomly bubble 20, youll get about 4 right (there are 5 choices per problem, so 1/5 of 20 is 4). So you get 4 right, which translates to 4 points, then you miss 16, which take off 1/4 each, equalling 4. So its +4 -4 = 0. Which is the same exact thing as skipping the twenty.</p>
<p>I'm hoping for a 1500-1550....I know I got atleast one math wrong, but I think I could have gotten perfect on the verbal. We'll just have to wait and see. I'll be extremely disappointed with less than a 1500!</p>
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why would you skip any? skipping is the same as filling in a random one., think about it, if you skip 20 out of 100, and get the rest right, you get 80 points. If you answer 80 correct and randomly bubble 20, youll get about 4 right (there are 5 choices per problem, so 1/5 of 20 is 4). So you get 4 right, which translates to 4 points, then you miss 16, which take off 1/4 each, equalling 4. So its +4 -4 = 0. Which is the same exact thing as skipping the twenty.
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<p>What if some of the questions missed is 1/3 each? Then it hurts you more than doing the same.
Remember some math questions are 1/3 instead of 1/4.</p>
<p>If they were 1/4 each then your scenario would work.</p>
<p>But there are cases when you should skip, such as when you have a few blank instead of 20 like above.
It will hurt if you guess then.</p>
<p>Lets say there are 25 question. You answer 21 of them correctly. You randomly bubble, if you get all 4 of them wrong.
You get 21 - (4 * 1/4) = 20
You just lost 1 point right there, you can make the scenario worse and lose more points.</p>
<p>That is more of a reason to skip because there are not 100 questions per section.
There are about 25, which means missing in 25 questions has greater effect than 100.
Afterwards those sections are added together.</p>
<p>Dude, oh my god. The math questions that are 1/3 point have 4 choices... thus getting 5 right out of 20, will give you plus 5 points, and missing the other 3/4 will take off 15 * 1/3, which is, durrrr... 5. As for your other statement, yea hypothetically, but just as easily you could get 1 of them right, thus giving you a 21.25...</p>
<p>Youre right, <em>fortunately</em> it is usually never the case. What is usually the case is that at least one answer can be discarded, which automatically tips the odds in the favor of the test taker, and makes it favorable for them to answer them all. The reason the formula I presented is in place is so that someone who christmas treed the entire test would score the same as someone who left the whole thing blank, it's done to make blind guessing and leaving blank the same. And with the amount of questions that there are on the SAT, if one skips many questions, there is an inevitable regression toward the mean.</p>
<p>wanted_exe - For the December SAT, results were posted around 8AM Friday morning. My advice would be to get a good night's sleep, and check either Friday morning or afternoon. Seriously, being the first to check doesn't improve your score...so calm down ppl...</p>
<p>blindc1rca - some people don't guess because they don't want to leave their score up to chance. If you guess randomly (even after eliminating one or two choices) on, say, 8 verbal questions...there's a chance that you will hurt your raw score by 2 points as opposed to just leaving it blank.</p>
<p>Although it evens out probability-wise, on something that is important to many people, some would just rather not leave it up to chance. Simple as that.</p>
<p>hoiping to score: around 1300. my highest is (650v, 620m). i want to get atleadt 650 math and up verbal any way i can</p>
<p>how i did: well math section did not go as well as i thought especially the last section but ill see how it went. my worst math was an experimental so i guess i got some kind of break. verbal was a breeze for me but i guess i always miss some concept that glares at me</p>
<p>what i think i got: maybe a 1260 i dont know around my same score</p>
<p>"That is more of a reason to skip because there are not 100 questions per section.
There are about 25, which means missing in 25 questions has greater effect than 100.
Afterwards those sections are added together."</p>
<p>The fact that there are only 1/4 as many questions makes no difference as far as probability is concerned. It's all luck -- 25 times or 100 times, the probability will be the same. Granted, some people are luckier than others, and some people are more unlucky than others. That being said, if I had no idea on a question, I wouldn't guess -- why bother wasting the time filling in the oval to a question that will most likely have no effect on the scoring?</p>
<p>Anyways, this was pointless, and I'm really anxious to see my scores. Collegeboard should just give up the goods early; 10:00 tonight would be nice.</p>
<p>I'm hoping for a 1350+ ...(over a 700 in math and hopefully over a 650 in Verbal) On my PSAT I got a 65 CR and a 66 Math but I know alot of people who get 100+ points better on the SAT than the PSAT..like going from an 1160 to a 1330 and from a 1240 to a 1400.</p>
<p>As for the test, I thought math was incredibly easy....I think I only missed one and I skipped one but we'll soon find out. Verbal wasn't too bad but I think I bombed the analogies....thank God for the New SAT!</p>