If you feel like you are spending too much time on any question, guess and move on. You can always return to those questions later. Strategic test-takers know to spend their time on questions they are likely to answer correctly, not to stubbornly work through a difficult or time-consuming question before they have seen other, potentially easier, questions.
In some cases, you can eliminate answer choices with very little effort. For instance, if a math question asks for the solution for x and tells you that x must be greater than zero, eliminate all negative answer choices.
If you have enough time and cannot figure out the answer to a grid-in, you can bubble in your favorite integer, like 1 or 2. To help you make the most out of your guesses, consider these test-day tips:. Before beginning the test, choose a letter to use for every guess you make. So when you come across a question that stumps you, go through the strategies above, make a guess, and then quickly move on. To avoid this, prepare yourself to guess before you take the test.
Use the strategies above in your practice the week before the test, and mentally prepare yourself to guess on a few questions. Come test day, guessing will be just another one of the strategies in your test-day tool belt! Prepare yourself to guess before you take the test. And on test day, let the end of each section be a closed book. You get a good score by being present and calm.
You want to be so confident in the material that you barely need to guess at all! Read the SAT guide today and start improving your score. NOTE: As I mentioned earlier, since there is no penalty for wrong answers, skipping or answering a question incorrectly results in the same score. Therefore, you can skip or answer incorrectly the same number of questions to receive Also, as I said before, each test date has a unique conversion scale from raw to scaled score, meaning each test date has a different answer, so the answer to this question is not exact.
To find the typical number of questions you can skip for , I analyzed eight real SAT practice tests and found the number of questions you could skip to get in each section. I put my findings in this table:.
You also can create an exact plan of attack according to your strengths and weaknesses. For your unique plan, consider what section you are struggling the most in whether it is Math, Reading, or Writing.
Try to skip the maximum number allowed in that section. If you struggle in Math, you should know on the Math section that the multiple-choice questions are ordered from easy to hard, and the grid-ins restart with easy questions and then move towards harder questions at the end of the section.
This way you give yourself a cushion; you can answer five questions wrong and still get On the Reading test, you should spend your time trying to answer easier questions correctly and consider just bubbling in a random answer for the harder questions.
On the Writing test, you should also spend your time on easier questions first and bubble in at least a few of the harder questions randomly, rather than spending the time to think them through. Do not just plan to skip the day of the exam without practice. If the first result is positive, and you see score improvement, simply continue skipping that amount of questions. If at first you get a lower score, try skipping half the number of questions allowed and see how that shifts your score.
Keep adjusting until you find the maximum number you can skip to get your desired score. Focus on getting the questions you do answer right! Want to improve your SAT score by points or more? We've put our best advice into a single guide. These are the 5 strategies you MUST be using to have a shot at improving your score. Trying to get a perfect score? You should check out our SAT study guide.
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