<p>I took the SAT for the first time at the beginning of the month. I was kinda disappointed when I got a 720 on the math but I didn't prep or anything and I did good on the other sections so it was nbd. I figured I just made some stupid mistakes. </p>
<p>However, when I got back my score report today it told me something weird: I missed 1 and omitted 3. </p>
<p>I know for a fact that I didn't skip any questions. I triple checked; when they'd call time up I'd always do a couple scans to make sure I didn't skip any (and I didn't). I know there was some kind of error (maybe computer error or maybe I didn't bubble all the way?) and I'm thinking about having it hand scored. </p>
<p>My only concern is that maybe I got those 3 wrong and there was some error with the computer: in that case, my score will drop and I definitely don't want that. I also don't want my 800 in critical reading changed! Any advice? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Just let it be, as like you said, the ones that were marked as omitted may have been in fact incorrect, meaning your score will decrease. Doesn’t the score report tell you the difficulty of the question (E, M or H) that you missed/omitted? If so, you could argue that if they were easy difficulty it is less likely that you got them wrong and it may be less risky to have a re-score. On the other hand, if they’re Medium or Hard questions, it’s likely you could have gotten them wrong and it isn’t worth the risk.</p>
<p>Same happened to me. I specifically counted the number of questions that I omitted on the entire test (which was 8), but somehow the Score report shows that I left 17 questions blank/omitted.</p>
<p>Maybe you missed the grid-ins, which is -1/4 when wrong.</p>
<p>wait you have no penalty for grid-in math problems. that’s why they encourage you to put at least something there. you only get penalized -1/4 if you get a multiple choice wrong.</p>
<p>What difficulty are the 3 omitted answers? The way I see it is that you can lose at most 1 raw score point and potentially gain 3 raw points which could be something like going down to maybe 700 or move up to 780 or more. If you are absolutely sure that you did not omit any answer, then it might be worth a hand score request. CR score would also be in play for hand score, do you have other previous test scores besides this one?</p>
<p>Also it might be cheaper to take another test than to hand score if you think you can do better and you can just concentrate on math on your next test. I think collegeboard should charge you nothing if you request a hand score and there was a mistake in the original machine scoring.</p>