<p>Someone give me the lowdown.
Okay, so what's the lowest score you can get in your SATs, what's the highest, and for like, the individual subject sections (Math, etc) what is the highest mark for those?</p>
<p>Highest:2400
Verbal:800 Math:800 Writing:800</p>
<p>I think the lowest score is a 600.</p>
<p>Yep, that's it Mountain Dew!</p>
<p>The lowest score all together, or for the individual sections? Like 600/2400 or 600/800 ?</p>
<p>Thx!</p>
<p>600 is definitely the lowest OVERALL score. I WISH it were the lowest for one section!</p>
<p>If it that was how they did it for EACH section, then the standards would just be higher, or something parallel to that of the previous grading procedure.</p>
<p>maybe you all dont realize this, but 600 isnt the lowest you can get.
the only reason, i think, why cb decided to give 600 to start with to everyone is that if you get EVERYTHING wrong, you have -1/4 times the number of the questions. that's lower than 600.</p>
<p>so the LOWEST is...
well, 600-(1/4*number of questions on the test).</p>
<p>The lowest reportable score is 600. Anything below that (540, 510, depending on the scale) is reported as a 600. Anything above 2400 is reported as a 2400.</p>
<p>Another question.
What's better? Having a wrong answer or not guessing at all? Like, getting something or not filling in a bubble at all?</p>
<p>Do you get marks either way, or nothing?</p>
<p>Guessing on the SAT</p>
<p>A common misconception about the SAT is that it's bad to guess. We hope that after you read this article you'll think otherwise.</p>
<p>Omitted Answer Equals Zero</p>
<p>First of all, many students believe that because there is "no penalty" for an omitted question (i.e. leave question blank), then you should always omit rather than guess. Wrong! The problem with this thinking is that if you omit a question you are getting ZERO points for that question. To cover the other possibilities: you get one point for a correct answer and -1/4 point for an incorrect answer. By the end of the SAT, you want to have racked up as many points as possible.</p>
<p>When to Guess on the SAT</p>
<p>So now you're thinking, "I get NEGATIVE points if I guess incorrectly and zero points if I just omit. Isn't it better to omit??" If you cannot eliminate any answer choices then yes, you should omit; however if you can eliminate just one answer then you should guess. </p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Benefit of Guessing on the SAT</p>
<p>Assume you've eliminated one wrong answer choice. That leaves you with four answer choices to guess from. If you randomly guess from the four remaining answer choices, then you have a probability of 1/4 of guessing correctly. Therefore the expected point value for your guessed question is</p>
<p>Expected points when you guess after eliminating one wrong answer choice</p>
<p>= (Probability correct X Point value for correct) + (Probability incorrect X Point value for incorrect) </p>
<p>= (1/4) X (1) + (3/4) X (-1/4) = 1/16 = .0625</p>
<p>The main thing to notice is that the expected value is positive! Hence, if you can eliminate at least one wrong answer choice, it's more likely that you will get positive points rather than negative points. The more wrong answer choices that you can eliminate, the better your results will be.</p>
<p>Summing Up</p>
<p>If you can't eliminate any wrong answer choices, omit the question. If you can eliminate one or more wrong answer choices, GUESS!</p>
<p>The one huge assumption made is that the test taker omits an incorrect answer choice. Oftentimes test takers omit the correct answer because they don't know how to solve the problem. This is especially true with questions at the end of the section (level 4/5 difficulty).</p>
<p>Okay... so I didn't have enough time to finish some sections and I just hastily filled in random bubbles for the last three of two sections.</p>
<p>... that was a bad mistake. I should have been more informed about the SAT then. I'll remember this info for the next time I take it. Thx.</p>