<p>now that there is no penalty for guessing on the AP exams, if you have no clue what the answer is on say 10 questions, what is the best strategy for guessing? Should you answer all of your guesses with the same letter, say "B"?</p>
<p>im pretty sure the letters are evenly distrubuted so 25% A, 25% B, and so on.
Therefore, you should skip the questions you dont know until the very end and count up the proportion of each letter you have so far. So lets say you get 10 % A as your lowest. You should guess A on ALL of the ones you skipped. BUT only do this if you plan on GUESSING on ALL of the remaining ones. If you use this technique and make educated guesses on other questions that arent A then it defeats the purpose. Either you guess all the way or educated guess all the way, your choice.</p>
<p>I don’t think what salzahrah is saying is accurate. If they had a predefined distribution for MC answers (especially one that obvious!) it would make it much easier to guess, which the AP test makers certainly don’t want to do–there’s a reason incorrect guessing was penalized for so long!</p>
<p>Assuming that you’re just randomly guessing between any of the choices without any regard for the question, there is no “strategy.” When you come to a specific question you don’t know, though, there are ways to make good guesses. They aren’t actual “strategies”, per se, that I could enumerate to you right now, but if you just think logically about the problem and what it’s asking of you, you can usually eliminate a few answers even if you have no clue how to solve it.</p>
<p>No matter what, you have a 1/4 chance of getting it right. If you eliminate answers you know are wrong, then your chances go up. Personally I just guessed “d” on all of the ones I didn’t know though.</p>
<p>Ha, I was never any good with convergence tests, and even though I memorized a few basic forms, a lot of the stuff on the non-calculator MC portion of the Calculus BC test earlier today looked totally foreign! I ended up guessing “B” for all the questions I omitted because I noticed that “B” came up frequently as an answer choice lol. Hopefully I managed to scrounge a few extra points from doing that…</p>