<p>like if you have 1. a 2. a 3. a 4. a, is it safe to assume that at least one of those answers must be wrong?</p>
<p>Do not use this method. If you are leaning towards an answer, pick it; don't choose anything because there is too much of one letter.</p>
<p>That said, in the writing section, you might want to go back and look at the questions you answered "no error" for.</p>
<p>No, not true at all. And if you're desperate to that degree of doing well by considering stupid stuff like this, you need a chill pill.</p>
<p>Agreed on above, make sure your "no errors" are indeed no errors. Too many of those is probably a bad sign.</p>
<p>tests answers are INDEPENDENT from each other.</p>
<p>I don't know how often it happens on the actual tests, but there are a couple places in the blue book practice tests where there are at least four of the same letters in a row.</p>
<p>not true. go take the practice sat from collegeboard and there's 4 d's in a row in the writing section. i was seriously thinking about changing one of the d's to an e but i kept my answer and all 4 were right.</p>
<p>ACTUALLY if you read a book called Up Your Score, it says that this is likely. This book is quite effective, too.</p>
<p>the college board uses a random program to generate answer choices. getting 4 of the same answer choice is rare, but possible:
(1/4)(1/4)(1/4)(1/4) = 1/256 chance that this happens.</p>
<p>I am one of those people that get paranoid by the patterns of answers but I usually just push it aside because I know all my teachers use a random program to generate the answers just like collegeboard. I second the no error thing, if there is time, go back and check that there really is no error.</p>
<p>Yeah. It's likely that you cannot have more than two of the same choices in a row, according to that book.</p>
<p>I always spend way too much time looking at the pattern on the answer sheet and worrying about repeating or not occuring letters... even though I know it's completely random.</p>