<p>How many did you leave blank?</p>
<p>Probably 5-6 here</p>
<p>None :\ 10char</p>
<p>a couple sentence completions</p>
<p>i think 4 on the Math
3 on the CR
and none on the writing
so 7 in all</p>
<p>0 blanks on mine</p>
<p>None on mine.</p>
<p>i left about 20 blank</p>
<p>can someone explain to me the benefit of leaving questions blank. Even for someone only shooting for around a 1600+ (out of 2400) it makes no sense to me.</p>
<p>leaving blanks is foolish, even if you can eliminate one answer choice you should answer 1 of every 4 guesses correctly...so its the same as omitting 4 choices plus you give yourself a chance to get them right..</p>
<p>a couple and they were mostly on the CR</p>
<p>I only left the ones blank where I had no clue at all (writing and CR) or on Math where I had no idea how to solve it.</p>
<p>So in total for all sections combined, I left maybe 10 or 11 blank.</p>
<p>None here. I could always eliminate at least 3.</p>
<p>MNO, people leave blanks because they don't count for or against one's score.</p>
<p>I omitted a math question because I ran out of time.</p>
<p>I omitted a vocabulary question. If I get 2 more wrong, I don't get extra points off. Had I not omitted a question, I would have gotten an extra point off.
-3 questions is like -4 points, but -2 + 1 omit = -3 points</p>
<p>Zero blanks here.</p>
<p>1 maybe 2 in writing- i can't remember if i went back and answered
2 or 3 in critical reading</p>
<p>Math is just a blur...</p>
<p>yep math is a blur for me too.. literally.. that was when my contact starting bugging me and i had to cover my right eye with my hand.</p>
<p>I never leave a question blank. If I have to guess, I narrow down the choices first or go by my intuition. </p>
<p>Here's the scenario as I view it:
You have 5 questions you don't 100% know the answers to. You decide to take the chance and guess on all 5. You get 4 wrong, getting 0 points with 4(0.25) = 1 point deduction from the raw score. However, you got one right, giving you a +1. Thus, getting one right cancels out the -1 deduction for guessing on the other 4 problems and getting them wrong. So in the end, you still end up getting 0 points, the equivalent of leaving all 5 blank in the first place.</p>
<p>The benefit is that if out of 5 questions, you can guess and get at least 2 right, right there you're getting a higher raw score than if you left all of them blank. It's hard if you can't narrow down any choices, but I can usually "feel" which ones are wrong and narrow it down in that manner.</p>
<p>2 omit on one of the math sections (ran out of time at the end)</p>