<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I'm very happy with my 770 maths score, but I was just slightly concerned over the fact that when I checked my score report, it turns out I did not get one question wrong. I omitted ONE grid-in question, but I thought by omitting you don't get penalized anyways.</p>
<p>Why did I get 30 marks off 800 when I didn't get anything wrong and only omitted one? Was omitting one question worth a 30 mark deduction? </p>
<p>Please help me out! Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>PS: I'm worried about this because with those extra 30 marks (or even 20), I would be within the 2200 mark...which looks alot better than my 2180.</p>
<p>If you think about it, omitting one question from the multiple choice section or the grid-ins is the same as getting one question wrong. If you get a mc question wrong, you are penalize -0.25 point, which adds up to -1.25, but college board rounds down for -1.25, so -1.25 rounds down to -1.</p>
<p>Usually missing one question on math does bring you down to a 780 or 770. Congratualations on your score though!</p>
<p>I don’t think a 30 point difference is a lot. A score 2180 will not make you look like a worse student than a person with a score of 2210.</p>
<p>Why did you omit a grid-in problem anyway? Did you run out of time? The SAT does not penalize you for getting grid-in problems wrong, only multiple choice.</p>
<p>It is true that there is no penalty for guessing on a grid-in, but it is very hard to guess the correct answer at random. It may not be worth the time to bubble the answer in unless you have some idea of what the right answer might be.</p>
<p>Omtting up to 2 is the same as getting 2 wrong.
The only way to get 800 on Math these days is to get 54/54 since the tests are easier than they were in '06 where you could miss one and maybe get 800.</p>
<p>If you omit one, you get 53/54 which is usually arround 770 maybe 780. If you get one wrong you get 52.75 (-1.25)/54, which still rounds up to 53. </p>
<p>If you omit 2, you get 52/54 which is around a 750 usually. If you get two wrong, you raw score is 54 - (2*1.25) = 51.5, which still rounds up to 52.</p>
<p>It’s also for this reason that you don’t see many people with a raw score of 51/54 because the only way to get that score is to omit something since 3 wrong is the same as -4 raw, and most people getting above 700 don’t omit often.</p>
<p>I omitted ONE grid-in question, but I thought by omitting you don’t get penalized anyways.</p>
<p>So, did you think if you omitted questions, but got the rest all right, you’d get a 800? Does that make sense? If that were true, people would only answer the questions that they were 100% sure about.</p>
<p>Omitting questions counts as wrong answers. Omitting just doesn’t get the extra penalty. Grid-ins don’t have the extra penalty.</p>