<p>what are your thoughts on guessing? All the prep books I encountered encourage guessing if you can cancel out answer choices, but what the mystery tutor says kind of makes sense: not to guess even if you can cancel out because you could have canceled out the right answer. But if you are sure of your cancel outs, can't you just guess, or should you not, just in case?</p>
<p>It really depends on how good a “guesser” you are, and what you consider “guessing.” Go through a practice test and mark each answer that you “guessed” on. Afterwards, calculate your score and see if it would have been better if you omitted those that you guessed on.</p>
<p>If you’re sure that two of the answers are wrong, guess. If you are sure that one of the answers is wrong but lean toward or away from another, guess. This is easy.</p>
<p>If you’re at the level where there are only one or two questions you are not 100% on, then guess on the remaining two (two wrong and two omitted are the same raw score). Of course, you have the be really sure about every other question, because three wrong or one wrong+two omitted are different raw scores.</p>
<p>Even if you can eliminate only one answer, the rounding of the raw scores means that it is slightly favorable to guess. However, at that point the expected benefit is so minor that you’re wasting time.</p>
<p>If I need to get the question right to meet my goal score, I usually guess unless I’m totally clueless. If I can afford to miss a few questions and still reach my goal (e.g., on subject tests with large curves), I tend to omit unless I can confidently eliminate three choices.</p>
<p>I recommend doing a statistical analysis on your guessing patterns. And based on that if the total percentage right is greater than 33% you should guess. Other wise it is likely that is till not change or decrease your score.</p>