<p>In the QOTD writing sections, (E. No error) rarely pops up as the correct answer...</p>
<p>Is this true on the real test???</p>
<p>Are there answer choices on the SAT that are correct more frequently or less frequently???</p>
<p>If possible please list each section individually with its answer choice frequency...</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I’ve read somewhere that “No error” will be correct 15% of the time. Not that that helps, because that’s about the same probability if you guessed randomly…</p>
<p>There aren’t any answer choices that are correct more/less frequently. Just pick a couple of random practice tests and calculate how often answers show up if you really want to know. If you choose nothing but A for the entire test you’ll get about 20% of the questions right - maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less depending on the date you happened to take it. You’re better off actually trying to figure out the correct answer than fuss over answer choice frequency. Definitely don’t change any answers based on something like “well, I have too many Cs” in a row" or “I haven’t picked A in a while.”</p>
<p>For the big writing section, the one before the last one, i had two Es if im not mistaken
lol this one was for march 2010</p>
<p>Yes, A is the correct answer everytime.</p>
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<p>no they are all roughly the same. in W, E shows up like 3 times for error IDs</p>
<p>I don’t know about the frequency of “no error”; however, I did make a study of the frequency distribution of answers using 15 old SATs. The distribution was consistent with a constant probability parent distribution (20% probability for any given letter).</p>
<p>What this means is that no one should be looking at patterns of answers or in any way choosing an answer based on what the previous one was (for example).</p>
<p>thers no way its exactly 20%</p>
<p>im pretty sure in the grammar section, answers with the word “Being” are rarely correct. very low percentage i believe. BUT THAT IS NOT TO SAY A SENTENCE WITH THE WORD BEING MIGHT NOT BE AN ANSWER.</p>
<p>E’s usually make two to three appearances each time.</p>
<p>@salzahrah: some letters were less than 20%, some were more than 20%. For the sample size I had, all of the numbers were consistent with a five-choice equal probability (20%) parent distribution.</p>
<p>Well. except for the grid-ins, we know that there is one answer that appears EXACTLY 20% of the time. It is the CORRECT ANSWER :)</p>
<p>Sorry, could not resist. Fwiw, even if astute observers could come up with a different distribution, one a fool would rely on such crutch on an official test. Never underestimate ETS’ sense of humor. For all we know, they might write a test that does not contain a single C or a single D. Just to mess with us. Well, that should have been … mess with YOU.</p>
<p>I sometimes find that there are patterns to some of the answers in the Math Free Response section (i.e. the answer being a multiple/factor of the problem number). Of course, don’t use this theory to answer the problems.</p>
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<p>Good answer :)</p>