<p>If you've narrowed down a question to two answers, do you guess or do you leave it?</p>
<p>I'm always torn about whether or not to risk that 1/3 of a point, ahaha.</p>
<p>How about three?c:</p>
<p>First off you loose a 1/4 of a point for a wrong answer. Therefore if you narrowed your choices down to two or even three it is in your favor to make an educated guess . </p>
<p>That being said , I fully understand the reasoning behind the 1/4 pt penalty for a wrong answer on math problems ( save for grid-ins) and vocabulary. However, the college board MUST reconsider and eliminate any penalty for a wrong answer on the reading comprehension section. Almost all students will answer these questions based on their interpretation of the passage. Generally there isn’t random guessing! The penalty here is completely unfair and penalizes students for thoughtful ( although incorrect) responses. In addition, some of the reading comp questions are inherently tricky which makes the 1/4 point off for an incorrect answer an even more iniquitous penalty. The tricky question already has a built on penalty. If you think an answer is correct ( not guessing) your further penalized besides not answering correctly . This is absurd. They changed the AP tests and the college board should do the same for the reading comp section of the SAT!</p>
<p>erm. I’m kind of talking about Subject Tests, which take off a third of a point.</p>
<p>subject tests take off 1/4</p>
<p>Whaaaaaaaaaaat?</p>
<p>Seriously? But my Princeton Review [French] said one-third.</p>
<p>It’s 1/4 for all wrong answers, no matter what subject test you’re taking.</p>
<p>[Scoring</a> Subject Tests](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-subject/scores/scoring]Scoring”>College Board Will No Longer Offer SAT Subject Tests or SAT with Essay – College Board Blog)</p>
<p>^ since French consists of only four-choice questions, one-third is taken off.c:</p>
<p>It really depends on how well you are doing on practice tests. If you are scoring high 700’s I wouldn’t guess, but if you are scoring in the 600’s and you have a lot of blanks, odds are for guessing I suppose.</p>
<p>Just to clarify for everyone, different subject tests take off different fractions of points for wrong answers. Tests with 5 possible choices take off 1/4, those with 4 answers possibilities take 1/3, and the Asian languages take of 1/2 for parts (some of the questions on Chinese/Japanese/Korean(?) have only 3 choices). That being said, if you would be willing to bet admission to any school of your choice on your decision to guess/your answer choice, by all means do it. (Yes, the analogy is rather drastic and unrealistic in all aspects, but typically effective.) Otherwise, leave it blank. Just remember that the odds are in your favor as long as you can eliminate at least 1 choice.</p>