A Question on the Math Section Student Produced Response

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I’m taking the SAT next month and during my prep course I noticed something about the student produced response. You aren’t penalized for getting any questions in that part of the test wrong, and you aren’t penalized for skipping the questions either. So it doesn’t affect your final score at all. My question is, why do them?

Math is the toughest section for me, so it seems reasonable to spend more time on the questions that count rather than use time answering questions that don’t count? I think I remember reading somewhere that these questions are used to test future questions? Is that correct? If that’s the case then I really don’t see a reason to do them. May seem rude but I don’t really care about that, all I care about is getting a good score now.

Appreciate the responses.

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Not how it works! If you skip the question, you get a total of ZERO added to your raw score. Skipping or missing in this area has the same result. You NEED to answer to earn a score and are not penalized ADDITIONALLY for making a mistake. That is not exactly the same thing.

Just as SPR are not the same as experimental sections. Again, not the same thing.

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So you do get a point if you get a student produced response question right? I know for sure you aren’t penalized if you get it wrong.

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The SAT has a guessing penalty, essentially. Leaving a question blank (not guessing) gives you 0 points. Getting it wrong is -0.25 points, I believe. Getting it correct is +1.
The write-in questions aren’t used to test new questions. In short, you really should try to solve them.

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You get 1 point for each correct answer on the grid-ins and 0 points otherwise. Simple as that.

For MC questions, you get 1 point for each correct answer, 0 for omit, and -0.25 for each incorrect (not omitted) answer.