<p>Hi, my math teacher told me that on the SAT Math if I was to skip the hard problems 18-20 on the 1-20, 8 on 1-8, 9 & 10 on the 1-10, and 15 & 16 on the 1-16 then I could score a 760, provided I got the rest correct. Is this correct?</p>
<p>first of all, there’s only 3 math sections. But if you do it your way, you would have a raw score of -7. The highest score you can get with -7 is 720. So the answer to that question is no.</p>
<p>your math teacher is completely wrong.</p>
<p>Apparently your math teacher can’t do math. </p>
<p>heres my advice.
If you are fairly confident about getting all the easy questions correct, then you should take her advice. After you receive your results,you can sue her.</p>
<p>for a 750, if you’re lucky on the curve prob. 4-5 wrong for all sections.</p>
<p>You cannot sue her for something stupid like that. It was simply advice. Everyone gives that advice. Skip hard questions and do the easy ones. And everyone also knows that the only way yo do REALLY well is to actually do all the problems. You will miss one here or there. Period. Guessing on the ahrd questions should theoretically give you no net loss, so problems should never be skipped, ever.</p>
<p>Why can he/she not sue his/her teacher for that? Her teacher specifically told her that a 760 was within her reach if she skipped those questions. Besides, A man was sued for leaving a “neutral” feedback on Ebay. </p>
<p>She can sue for many reasons.
Poor advice given by a supposedly trustworthy and reliable individual results in a poor SAT score of a innocent student, causing emotional distress and depression on behalf of the poor student and may potential lead to withdrawal and eventually a outbreak of seizures. The poor scores will eventually tarnish the reputation of the student and his family, and will ultimately redirect the entire course of the childs life- turning him/her into yet another meth dealer in the streets of wherever the hell she/he lives. </p>
<p>But yeah, you shouldn’t skip questions.</p>
<p>^Made me XD so hard…</p>
<p>
He IS in fact serious people.</p>
<p>wow …well like they said, the answer is no. heres my advice: get everything in the math section right. hard but not impossible</p>
<p>2 wrong or skipped on a difficult curve, 2 wrong and 1 skipped on a normal curve.</p>
<p>In January, 2 wrong and one omit was a 740.</p>
<p>750? -3(if no guessing penalty),or skip 2(no guessing penalty).
-7=720?? pffft u’re wrong bro.ive never seen a curve like this. usually -5 is 700ish. -7 pfft</p>
<p>I got 4 wrong on the June test and ended up with a 690.
do the math.</p>
<p>But don’t you lose points if you guess and get it wrong? So if you really don’t know then skipping the question is better than guessing?</p>
<p>Yes, and you need to keep as many of your raw points as possible to get a 700</p>
<p>ouch anhtimmy, that -4 690 is very harsh…i got -5 on may, and i scored 710 =D lucky. i guess i didn’t get penalized for guessing, just a bunch of omit+grid ins.</p>
<p>Guessing should not hurt your score theoretically. If you guess on 5 questions, you should get 1 right, because there are 5 choices. That means 4 wrong, so its -1 point, while you gain one point from the one you got correct.</p>
<p>Thats if you guess 100%. If you can eliminate a few answers, your chances improve by a lot.</p>
<p>@portugueseninja: I’ve yet to come across a math question I couldn’t relatively quickly eliminate at least two answers on… but yes, I suppose if you really can’t narrow it down at all it is better to leave it blank than to guess.
Edit: @khoitrinh: Your example only holds true if you are guessing on a large number of questions, if you are guessing on one or two then chances are you are going to get them both wrong so it is advantageous to skip.</p>
<p>Statistics are applicable to smaller sets, but it becomes more of a gamble, and you lack the surety that would have otherwise been present with a larger number of questions.</p>
<p>Lol, and anyone can sue for anything. I can sue you right now (after I hire a PI to find for me your personal info). Any sane judge would throw it out on de minimus non curat lex though…</p>