<p>I have been told that omitting (skipping) questions does not affect your score but when i think about it, it really does!</p>
<p>When i skip questions, that makes my raw score go down, say if i got all the questions right, but omitted one giving me a raw score of 53 on the math section... So instead of getting an 800, i get somewhere between 750-800??</p>
<p>I don't understand the consequences of skipping questions...They say it doesn't hurt your score but doesn't it limit your raw score, which in turn makes your scaled score lower????</p>
<p>If you skip a question, you, obviously, lose the opportunity to get the question right. If you guess and are wrong, you lose 1/4 of a point. People say that if you can eliminate one or more answers that it is to your advantage to take a stab at the question, however, if you have no clue, I would highly recommend skipping it.</p>
<p>The strategy comes in knowing how many points you need to get an 800. My D was told that an 800 on the World History SAT required 80 correct and no incorrect answers (or 81 correct and no more than 4 incorrect answers). There are 95 questions on the test. So yes, you can omit answers, and sometimes should omit them if you’re truly guessing.</p>
<p>for math if u get 1 wrong its 780 automatically… if u omit one its 790 i think (not quite sure)… different from writing and CR… CR u can get couple wrong/omit few and get 800 almost (not quite sure, but thats what i see)… writing is essay+grammar corrections.. im not sure about that section.</p>
<p>Getting one wrong is -1.25, which gives you a raw score of 52.75, which is rounded up to 53, which yields a 790. That’s the same score you’d get if you left one blank.</p>
<p>Now here’s the difference: If you get three wrong, that’s -3.75 which means raw of 50.25, which gets rounded to 50, giving you a 720. Whereas three blank would mean 54-53 = 51 raw score giving you a 740. Get it now, people?</p>