<p>One of the most fundamental strategies used by people when taking SATs is guessing. Almost every guide to SATs urges doing so, even sometimes when you have eliminated only one answer. </p>
<p>The question is, though, do you guess?</p>
<p>A lot of people are scared to guess on the SATs, even though they can eliminate two or even three answers. They fear getting unlucky and screwing up their scores. </p>
<p>Seeing how CC is probably the elite community when coming to these standardized tests, I ask you:</p>
<p>Do NOT guess on tests with difficult curves.</p>
<p>I was pretty used to answering all of the questions in the Math II practice tests and staying comfortably within the time limit. I was consistently getting 800s. In the practice test there were 3 questions I completely blanked on. There were 2 questions I wasn’t 100% sure of. Doing the maths, I knew that I could lose a maximum of 5 marks to clinch an 800, so I unconventionally left the 3 questions blank. If I guessed the 3 questions and got them wrong then I would have already lost 4 raw marks and would only have space for 1 silly mistake. By leaving them blank, I had room for 2 silly mistakes. Low and behold, I got my 800 :D</p>
<p>I’d say that the best thing to do is know your curves. With practice tests like physics where you can get 13 questions wrong and still get an 800, you can feel much more comfortable guessing than you would in chemistry, where you can only get about 4 wrong.</p>