<p>So I'm sure this has been asked a million times before, but is it better to omit or guess? I already know that it is better to guess if you can narrow it a little bit, but the impression I got here was that omitting was worse for the score in some way?</p>
<p>So I'm still really confused on this. Around how many omits could I do and still get a 700?</p>
<p>thanks for clarifying</p>
<p>actually, i remember taking a test and omitting ~9-10 CR questions, and getting the others correct. i ended up getting 640. it wouldve prbly been about 100 points lower if i guessed on those</p>
<p>IMO guessing is better. </p>
<p>Let’s just say you have a 1/4 chance to get it right. It could be more than that, or less too.</p>
<p>So if you guess on four, statistically you’ll be better off. (If you get 1 right and the other 3 wrong, then it’s minus 3/4 of a point, but plus one point). </p>
<p>So you would end up with plus 1/4 of a point.</p>
<p>Guessing is always zero.</p>
<p>If you really have no idea, I’d omit. If you have any idea at all, to me, go for it.</p>
<p>id say if you’re really a lucky person, then guess.
it never seems to work for me T_T when im down to 2 choices, i always pick the wrong one. sigh.</p>
<p>Guessing throughout the SAT should theoretically neither benefit nor hurt you. Guessing correctly on one question while guessing incorrectly on four, for instance, will basically eliminate the quarter-point deductions accrued, leaving a score equal to one that would have been attained by not guessing at all. Also, it cannot harm one’s score to guess on one or two questions per section (as in M, CR, or W, not the individual subtests), since the raw score would be rounded to the next point in the event of incorrect guessing.</p>
<p>Statistically, though, it would be foolish not to guess if one is able to eliminate one or more answer choices, given that doing so places the odds in one’s favor.</p>
<p>Bump for more input, please!</p>
<p>Just take a minute to analyze your test-taking style! Just like poker players, students tend to be either tight or loose 
If you’re a tight one, you’re probably very reluctant to guess unless you’re sure, and you’re a lot less likely to go with your gut (even if your gut is right!). If you’re a loose one, you’re going to guess a lot more often than not and your reasoning may be as inane as picking “C” because C is for cookie :)</p>
<p>The idea is to go for a happy medium. Don’t go in expecting to respond to every question. Unless you’re an exceptional student, you’re going to be clueless on some questions so just understand you’ll be leaving a few blank. One the other hand, don’t get so worried about that quarter-point penalty that you don’t take a chance. Statistically, if you can rule out just one answer, you should guess. Trust yourself when your instinct leads you to an answer, because you’re going to be right a lot of the time. Best of luck!</p>