<p>yes -- he should have taken it in November or December, but it didn't work out. The November date was also the only time we could do a visit to California -- so that date didn't work and he was scheduled for December, but there was conflict with his big community service project at school.</p>
<p>He isn't expecting a high score -- and his list of schools was chosen with that understanding, so he didn't have alot of pressure on his today.</p>
<p>crickett -- that is exactly what my son thought. Jonathan -- what you don't know is if the treasure is between the girl and the tree or if the tree is between the girl and the treasure.</p>
<p>i took it today and didnt think it was that hard. reading was a little hard, though.</p>
<p>you'll all do fine
be confident</p>
<p>I only omitted one, is tht bad? it's not that I knew everything else, I made an educated guess</p>
<p>Well, considering you lose 1/4 pt for every wrong anwser and you lose nothing for each omitted anwser, the logical thing is to leave it blank. So, if you were filling them in to fill them in, then it probably wasn't such a fab idea. However, if you could eliminate 3 of the answers, you have a better shot.</p>
<p>I told my son that if he could narrow it down to two answers, he was better to guess. If he didn't have a clue -- leave it blank. That seems to be the standard test tip for multiple choice tests with 4 possible answers.</p>
<p>With 5 options and a 1/4 pt. penalty for wrong answers and 1 point for a correct answer, making a random guess is a break-even proposition.</p>
<p>As soon as you eliminate one answer, you're ahead of the game.</p>
<p>It's easy. For five answers, there are 4 answers that cost 1/4 point (-1.0) and 1 answer that results in +1.0. The sum of the values is 0. If you're a good standardized test taker, you probably have some Zen sense that leads you to the right answer...meaning it's better than break even. If you're a standardized testing basket case, it's less than break even.</p>
<p>Eliminate 1 answer and it's a 4 choice test: -1/4 -1/4 -1/4 + 1 = +0.25
Eliminate 2 answers and guessing yields you -1/4 -1/4 + 1 = 0.5
Eliminate 3 and you're rewarded -1/4 + 1 = 0.75</p>
<p>Even a bad test-taker shouldn't wait to eliminate 3 answers before guessing. But for some, it's a smart play to leave no questions unanswered. And statistically, it really doesn't hurt to guess at all the answers...over a large pool of answers, that is.</p>
<p>I just took it today and it was alot easier than the practice tests I took. I didn't know four or five on the verbal, reading was a no problem, and I omitted two on the quantitative but am fairly confident about most of it. Can't wait for the scores!</p>
<p>for me, it's always the verbal that's hard and the math is easy. on this test, I thought the reading was fine....
I'm nervous that I didn't omit enough verbal after reading this, though. I wish I'd taken the isse b/c they see both math sections and you are supposed to guess
oh well...</p>
<p>The analogies were so hard!</p>
<p>maybe i just spend more time on my latin and spanish vocabularies than I do on my english one...
i just hope I get a good score so I did everything i could... oh well</p>
<p>sorry imma little late but does any one know what that question was about the x apples = $6 then 12 apples who be how much? y/x? 72x/y??
i might be over thinking it but i would really like to know thanks!</p>
<p>Haha!! That was the one I left blank!!!
It was:
There are x apple in a crate selling for 6 dollars a crate. How much would 12 apples cost?</p>
<p>well, it may not be right, but I did x/6=12/y, so 72/x</p>
<p>vocab studying is hard</p>
<p>I started studying for it by just looking up the words I didn't know in the book I was reading. then I did the practice test and I realized that it was pointless because those words were so much more hard than the ssat ones. so I got a list online of words and memorized them, about 200/250. I took the test and not one was on it. if my vocabulary wasn't already ok it would have been really bad</p>