<p>Or did I read this wrong In Rocket Review?</p>
<p>He said no to leave any Sentence Completions blank</p>
<p>I read that in RR too. He could be right.</p>
<p>He also said</p>
<p>800 - 60(blank) - 70(wrong) = score on a section</p>
<p>But Grammatix strongly recommend that DO IT or SKIP IT !!! Whener you are not 100% sure, you should skip it !</p>
<p>i disagree. i dont know about anyone. i get nervous about answering the question that i skip way to many and then the highest possible score i can get is a 650. if you can eliminate answers then i believe you should guess.</p>
<p>Rocket review is assuming that u start off with an 800 on each section so if u leave it blank, u lose 10 points. I mean ppl say udont lose anything by leaving it blank but thats assumingn that you start with 0 because if you were to leave every thing blank, you obviously wouldnt get an 800. Think of it as each question u get wrong, you lose 1.25 points, -1 for blanks and -0 for each one you get right for your raw score. Also that formula you posted is for a sample passage as an indicator of how well you did on the passage because there were only 9 questions.</p>
<p>Also, if you think about it, if you guess for 2 question and you get them both wrong, it is -2.5 but that would round up for your raw score so it would be the same as leaving 2 blank. But if you guessed on two of them and got 1 right and 1 wrong you actually only lose .25, which rounds to 0 so it didn't hurt you where as leaving those 2 blank, you get -2</p>
<p>so we should answer all questions?</p>
<p>hmmm, not really. depends on what type of question. it also depends on many factors. i'm still thinking about it cuz i just read the tips from RR. i think we should leave blank on hard questions and on those we don't have any idea.</p>
<p>i never left any questions blank.... i dont see the point.... you should be able to eliminate 2-3 answer choices to make it worth it to guess</p>
<p>i will do some testing on my practice tests to see if i left blanks rather than getting answers wrong, which is better.</p>
<p>I think Collegeboard should do away with the guessing system like ACT did. They want to balance it so that people don't get lucky by guessing, but a lot of people lose points by doing the problem almost correctly and getting one little thing wrong, losing .25 when someone who had no clue and skipped it doesn't lose anything.</p>
<p>Well based on the law of large numbers, if u were to guess on every question, evetually you would get the same score as omitting every question. If you can eliminate even 1, your expected raw score will eventually be higher than just omitting, but hopefully you dont have a large number of questions that you need to omit or guess on</p>