<p>Hi!
So if I get, say, 2 questions wrong. Would it be -3 or still be -2?</p>
<p>On the SAT for every question you get wrong you subtract .25 from your raw score. So if you miss two questions, you would lose .5 points. Each correct answer is worth 1 point. Omitted questions earn you 0 points.</p>
<p>So say there are 24 CR questions and you get 21 right. Your raw score is 21. But since you got three wrong, your raw score would now be 20.25. If you had omitted the three questions you raw score would remain 21.</p>
<p>Is that what you’re asking??</p>
<p>No I meant say i got 2 wrong. Then my raw score would be 21.5. Is it rounded to 22 or 21?</p>
<p>22, they round up. if you get 3 then it goes down</p>
<p>.5 and .75 go up, and .25 goes down; CB uses basic rounding rules. So every 3, 7, 11 etc. are the worst amounts to get wrong.</p>
<p>It’s also important to remember that getting 3 questions wrong isn’t that bad since the college board assigns the scaled score (200-800) based on the distribution of raw scores and the difficulty of the test, and with very few people getting -3 raw points on any section, getting -4 will usually be about the same raw score as getting -3.</p>
<p>@pizzabagel No, actually there are some tests that -3 on CR would still get a 800, while a penalty -4 would leave me with a 780.</p>