<p>After you guys finish a section, do you go back and check? Or do you simply work slowly to ensure accuracy and never look back? For me, I always seem to change the answer from correct to incorrect after I am done with a CR section. I don't really have this problem with other sections though.</p>
<p>Im pretty sure they do the questions fast (but read the directions carefully especially for math), and then go back and check</p>
<p>i go through each section fairly quickly (well, at my own comfortable rate), circling the questions i’m unsure of to go back and do after i finish the easy ones. then i go back and do those. at this point i usually have 5-10 minutes left, and i go back through every one of my answers to make sure that i’ve bubbled them in correctly and that i’m still sure of my choices. i usually avoid changing answers unless i suddenly realize something i did wrong. also, i go through the tricky math problems and re-solve them in case i made a mistake the first time</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’d be considered a high scorer (only 2300) but I just took it at my own pace, I don’t rush to be able to check, nor do I purposely go slow to avoid silly mistakes, I just went at my usually testing pace and let it be at that </p>
<p>in case you’re wondering, I ended up finishing CR right at the buzzer most sections, math with anywhere from 10-15 minutes left for all the sections(although I didn’t go back and correct, just sat there), and writing with a few minutes left</p>
<p>I have to super RUSH through the math section, so i almost never get a chance to look back and check my answers unless the section is abnormally easy and I’m somehow able to finish it on time. So the math section is really a toss-up for me: on the Dec test i got a 710 but this was without checking my answers and just simply trying to finish on time. On the Jan test I got a 800, although I was able to check back on a few math sections during this test because the math portion was significantly easier than the Dec one… </p>
<p>CR and writing I just do straight through and I can finish on time</p>
<p>I always got through all the sections pretty quickly, usually with at least 8-10 minutes left. On the CR sections I would casually flip through some of the questions that I thought were a bit tricky, but I made sure to pretty much re-do as many math problems as possible, since I tend to make really dumb mistakes. It gets a little tedious, but it ended up serving me well in the long run.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses guys. At home, I never recheck, but I rechecked like crazy on the actual one and ended up scoring lower than what I usually do.</p>
<p>Rechecking saved me from getting five or so questions wrong when I took the test. I worked at a “normal” pace initially and rechecked meticulously; I finished with about 2~3 minutes remaining in every section.</p>
<p>I feel like math is definitely the most important section to double check. Simply because it will not be as apparent to you whether you messed up or not.</p>
<p>yodastreet,</p>
<p>Do you simply do the section comfortably at first and then go through from #1 again?</p>
<p>I never revisited answers until my final test - when I exclusively checked every Math section, since I was prone to careless errors.</p>
<p>Does rechecking in sections other than math make a difference?</p>
<p>don’t think so, because in CR theres no real way to recheck youre answer i.e rework or anything, you think what you think based on the passage you cant rework and fix a silly error.</p>
<p>Yeah, i heard 'IAmCool’s brother got a 900 on the sat math portion. </p>
<p>Thats how idiodic his statement sounds.</p>
<p>I’d read through all of the writing questions if time permits to see if your revised sentences sound right and if the sentence errors make sense.
If you’re someone who makes careless mistakes on the math section like I am…definitelyyy check all of your answers. I usually rush through the section, circle the ones that I think would need re-checking, and then go back and double check the circled ones once I finish.
Then if you still have time…check all the other ones. Just make sure you don’t make dumb mistakes on the difficulty 1 questions like I did for several tests in a row :p</p>
<p>There really is no way to check CR. If anything, go back and look at sentence completions, but I’ve found that it’s better to take your time with CR instead of rushing through.</p>
<p>"Yeah, i heard 'IAmCool’s brother got a 900 on the sat math portion. "</p>
<p>rofl</p>
<p>Cornetking, yes, that’s exactly what I did. Like others have said, though, with CR I tried to just get it right the first time.</p>
<p>I advise trying the strategy several times with practice sections (doesn’t have to be a full test, obviously) to get a feel for how early you can finish and how much time, if any, you have left to double check. Then try to find a balance.</p>
<p>@doctor </p>
<p>I sound stupid but I don’t get your statement…</p>
<p>I get it :)</p>
<p>I skip all the questions I don’t know and then come back to them at the end, it’s usually faster that way so that you won’t be stuck on one problem forever
and also,</p>
<p>@mabs-stevenusuck123
no you don’t</p>