<p>So if I don't know the answer / not certain about the answer of a question, should I guess or omit the question?</p>
<p>And any more tips will be appreciated, thanks !</p>
<p>You should omit the question, because there’s a 1/4 penalty for wrong answers.</p>
<p>i think ssat is hard…
esp. the vocab part because i’m an international student.
can’t belive people acually scored 800 on that sec.</p>
<p>@ladyluck Being an international student doesn’t automatically mean english isn’t your first language… Just saying because people keeping using ‘international student’ as a synonym for english not being their naative language. Sorry for the quibble but it annoys me being a native english international. Anyway, I got a 98th on the verbal. The princeton review practice tests helped me a lot but I vaguely remember googling ‘SSAT vocab quizes’. If you don’t know the answer and particularly if it’s a subjecr your weak in omit it. I think I omitted about 6 or something in Math and I scored in the low 80s there. So my advice would be to omit unless you can narow it down to two choices then guess 'cause you gain a whole point for getting it right and only lose a 1/4 for getting it wrong.</p>
<p>Blueraven I got a 98 in verbal too. Also, you should know that the majority of international students don’t have english as their first language. They may speak it but they more often they speak a language that’s native to their country.</p>
<p>@Blueraven: so we should only omit a question if we can’t eliminate two of the answers? </p>
<p>@urbanflop: lol you’re right. English is not my first language and I’ve only learned English for three years, so verbal and reading will be my nightmares. And addressing yourselves as ‘international students’ usually means that ‘English is not our first language’ :D</p>
<p>And OMG I’m so jealous of you guys 
How did you study for the verbal + reading?</p>
<p>I know, it’s just annoying that here and in real life people automatically assume that because i’ non-american english is not my first language. like how my local public schools made me test out of ESL. Which ill admit was incredibly amusing, my english was literally better than my testers. It just annoying how people automatically assume that nobody whose an international speaks english natively.</p>
<p>um i didn’t really study sorry but I know urbanflop did. Just really try and get hold of some practice tests they help immensly. and the Princeton review did say something about at what point you should start guessing, i cant find my copy right now but if i do I’ll be sure to post the information.</p>
<p>Well english is my first language so verbal I memorized alot of words and some of them were on the test. The reading comprehension can only be mastered if you can get used to reading books and passages. I am an avid reader so I didn’t study much for that one but I took practice tests which helped.</p>
<p>Also with the reading look at the answers to a question and slowly cross off all the answers it couldn’t be. Untill you’re left with one answer which makes it much easier. On my first reading test I was to confident and went to fast, I scored in the high 70s. On the real test I took my time and made sure to employ this method and got a 99. So it did work for me. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Thanks so much 
Also are we allowed to scribble on the paper (for Math) or do we have to do it mentally? </p>
<p>I do read books though, but whenever I come across a new word, I just ignore it and go on so reading doesn’t help me much. Another thing that I’m afraid of in the reading section is that there are 40 questions to be answered in 40 minutes!! This means 1 question per minute, and reading each passage takes us 1-2 minutes already :(. How can we possibly finish all of them on time?</p>
<p>you’re allowed to scribble/write/doodle whatever you want in your test booklet. you just have to mark only your answer, though, on your answer sheet.</p>
<p>piggy1402 most people finish on time. Some of the questions you need to think about but a majority of them can be easily found in the passage. Relax…there is nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>off topic: hahaha hiii urbanflop, remember me? :- ) holy cow i don’t recognize anyone !</p>
<p>the verbal really isn’t that hard, remembering roots is the most important part imho.
i found the essay a lot harder than the verbal… where the heck are the SSAT people getting these prompts? so weird and random. idk, but i barely finished my essay, be careful with that.</p>