<p>Let's say the raw score of the sat is a 54 in the math section.</p>
<p>Get all 54 right, and you got a 800.</p>
<p>Let's say i dont like one of the questions and i leave it blank</p>
<p>that automatically puts me to 53 correct leaving me with the chance to never get an 800</p>
<p>correct?</p>
<p>if yes, then why not just guess it and lost .25th of a point?</p>
<p>if i guess and its wrong, i only get a 53.75 which rounds off to a 54 anyways... right?</p>
<p>my main question is.. why would anyone wanna omit a question, when they can just guess 4 times and get it wrong, or omit and automatically be graded one less possible correct answer.</p>
<p>if i only answer 20 out of 54.. my maximum raw score can only be 20 which would suck on a scaled. </p>
<p>yup. but a lot of people view omits as not losing anything (but I guess technically you are losing the opportunity to get 1 more right, so you can view it at -1 if you want to). </p>
<p>remember, once you get 3 wrong it will result in -3.75 which rounds to -4. So if you got 51 out of 54 with 3 wrong answers, you will get a raw score of 50 (-4).</p>
actually this is not too correct.
You can think of this in 2 ways:</p>
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<li><p>You start off with a perfect 54, and your goal is to NOT to lose any points. For every question you omit or incorrectly answer, you then lose 1.00 point(+penalty if necessary).</p></li>
<li><p>Or you start off with 0. For every question you get right, you get 1.00 point. Omitted answers yield 0 point, and so forth.</p></li>
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