<p>I don't quite comprehend this, omiting questions would not count a point or take away a point toward the SAT I exam.. Now if I omitted every question but 1, and if that question was correct, wouldn't it technically be 1/1= 100%</p>
<p>I am utterly confused how the omitting part works?
Is it better to answer it wrong or omit? </p>
<p>help.</p>
<p>Let's say there are 50 math questions. Now you omit 10 questions. Your raw score would be 40. Another person gets all 50 correct, so their raw score would be 50. Clearly, the other person will get a higher score. I personally think it's better to answer and get it wrong than omit. If you answer it, at least you give yourself a shot at getting the question right.</p>
<p>The way the scoring works is there is a raw score determined by the number you got correct minus the number you got wrong divided by four. (number right)-.25*numberwrong = raw score. So if you get 1 question right you would get a raw score of one. While you'd get 100% oft he questions you answered right you'd still have a very low score (probably around a 200). </p>
<p>It is better to guess if you have any idea as to what the answer may be. since it deducts 1/4 of the points when you miss a question if you were to bubble in random bubbles the entire test you're likely to end up with a score around 0.<br>
For example if A is the right answer and all the other answers are wrong you would have:
A. +1
b. -1/4
c. -1/4
d. -1/4
e. -1/4
which has an expected return of 0 if it were completely random which one you chose. however if you can cross off a single answer it gives you an expected return of +.0625, or 2 answers you'd expect +.167... and so on</p>
<p>simply put yes it's worth your while to guess if you have ANY idea what the answer is.</p>
<p>the beginning of every prep book explains how scoring works and omitting (when and why). Most of them say that you should guess if u can eliminate 1. That would give you at LEAST the same score (saying you got half of those guesses wrong) as if you had omitted all of those in which you could have eliminated 1. I dont like that. What if you guess all of them wrong? Then you have a worst score than if you had guessed. I say, guess if you can narrow it down to 2 choices.</p>
<p>A better way to think of it is like this:</p>
<p>A = 0
B = -1.25
C = -1.25
D = -1.25
E = -1.25</p>
<p>You select the right answer every time (in this case, A) and your score stays the same as when you enter the test, which in the case of the math section, is 54 (800). </p>
<p>If you can eliminate one question with 100% certainty, then guess. But don't guess blindly, use those SAT instincts (different from normal instincts). For example, on a lvl 5 SC question, the answer isn't going to be "dubious." Granted, it's an "SAT" word, but most people who study vocab are going to know it. Now "palliative," that may be a nice choice. Maybe "doctrinaire." Let's say a lvl 5 math question is asking about the function y = 2--chances are, the answer will not be 2. These speculations should guide your guessing ONCE YOU ALREADY ELIMINATED ONE ANSWER CHOICE.</p>
<p>As for as I comprehend this system, If I omit 4 questions from a 50 question test, my raw score would be 46.
Now if I get wrong 4 questions from a 50 question test, my raw score would be 49.</p>
<p>Jesus, OMITTING SUKS!! GO guessing woot! woot!</p>
<p>If my above post was correct, omitting a question would define you as an idiot.</p>
<p>ure wrong, if you omit 4, out of 50, and get all other correct, ure raw is 46. True. If you get 4 incorrect. That means, out of 50, you got 46 correct, and 4 in correct. ure raw would then be 46-4(.25) = 45. So skipping 4 is better than getting 4 wrong.</p>
<p>But if you guess on questions and you get them incorrect, the minus 1/4 of a point will add up.</p>
<p>Ok, sry for my stupid mistake. Anyways, I can conclude that omitting is better than answering it wrong.
Since there is always a chance to get it right, I would omit only if I couldn't cross two answers out of logic. </p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>if you can cross out a SINGLE answer with logic it is beneficial to guess...</p>
<p>No because then you would have 25% change of getting the answer...which is odds I won't deal with..</p>
<p>well if there's a large number of questions on which to guess... odds are it will be in your favor to guess if you can eliminate one</p>
<p>You need to be careful though. You could have a 50.5 raw score(which would round up to a 51). If you guess, you not only go to 49.5, but you lose -.25, a 49.25, which rounds down to a 49. You never know your raw score throughout a test, so you never know if it's alright to guess(IE you're at 50.75, and if you guess wrong, you go to a 49.5, which would be the SAME as a 49.75).</p>
<p>I kind of made a mistake, maybe, on the June SAT. I hope that this won't hurt my score, as in I thought I knew how many I had guessed incorrectly before, so I took a guess, which was wrong. But since I didn't know that I got others before that guess wrong, it mgiht hurt me, and I hope it doesn't push me from a -.5 to a -.75, which makes me go 2 lower.</p>