<p>It’s not like colleges are going to view scores differently, and it only helps the students, it doesn’t destroy the credibility of the SAT. It’s not like colleges will suspect someone who has a high ACT score. ETS thinks that it balances out so that if someone incorrectly guesses at 4, it balances out if they get one right. </p>
<p>Still, some people actually put a lot of work into problems and get it wrong because of a stupid mistake, and they lose just as much as a person who guessed randomly. What do you guys think? They should do it to encourage people to guess instead of having people spend time on the test deciding whether they should guess out of 3-4 choices because they’ll lose .25.</p>
<p>That’s dumb. Making stupid little mistakes should be penalized. Its just as bad as choosing something randomly. The penalty is there to help people that omit questions. They do not get penalized because they know they cant get it right.</p>
<p>Encouraging guessing is the stupidest idea I ever heard of. Why would colleges encourage people to do that? Do you think colleges want smart people, or people who get lucky on a random test?</p>
<p>Lose out…? You make it seem as if the entire test is a single question with a 50/50 chance. If you’re well prepared, you wont “lose out” to somebody who doesn’t know what he/she is doing. Get some sleep.</p>
<p>Somebody who puts “a lot of work” into a problem but makes a “careless” mistake is just as bad as somebody who has no clue what he’s doing. If you’re going to put time into solving a question without making sure you’re doing ti correctly, you might as well guess. </p>
<p>And stop using carelessness as an excuse. A mistake is a mistake, carelessness just puts you in the league of what they called ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>He didnt say lose out at all. He said that both would lose the same amount of points for missing a question. You should get some sleep Qu.</p>
<p>But i do agree that being prepared should not put you in that situation. If you miss a question then you did not know how to do it. That is just as bad as guessing on it. Just because you can kinda understand a question does not mean that you are better than someone who does not understand it at all. A wrong answer is a wrong answer. A silly mistake means that you did not understand how to do the problem well enough. If it was something stupid like adding some numbers incorrectly or misreading a sentence, then do you still think that you are better than someone who guessed? What kind of people make stupid mistakes? Stupid people.</p>
<p>And who spends time deciding whether to guess or not on a test? The answer should always be no.</p>
<p>i disagree, i mean either way it affects your score and its more lenient. but then on the other hand if it didn’t exist ALOT of people would be getting 2400s and that would limit your chance if you’re not that great. so either way it makes no difference, you just have to be good at it.</p>
<p>I’m not taking the SAT again though, I much prefer the ACT because of this because I can have 2 choices in Math for instance and choose randomly(today I had to choose between 2 choices that had a difference of 2 but had a very good chance of being the answer because of the logic I went through to realize it). I mean I don’t see people criticizing the ACT because of this. Like it said, it’s to your advantage to guess every question.</p>