<p>If i’m a student who just trying to get a 1400-1600
Pragmatic speaking i think i can only raise my score to a 1400.
June 7 S.A.T i got a 1022(Yes low- No Comment) with Kaplan course… I think it was a pretty useless course.
This summer i got a few books Example :Blue book,28 math lesson for student below 500 by steve, Erica Grammer. Study most common sat words at night.
My question is should i only answer the questions i think i know or just answer everything.
Math :I answer what i know because i’m not good at it. Steve book been teaching me stuff i never knew or i did not remember.
Reading : i answer everything , but i’m not even trying to score a 2400… should i decrease? The reading section is really hard for me. English not my first language, but i do read a lot. The S.A.T Passages questions feel complex and it’s hard to comprehend for me. I been using the blue book and it helped me a lot, but i always get down to the last two answers choices and get it wrong.
Writing : I mostly answer everything, but from reading Erica Book and Silver Turtle guide i feel more confident about this section.
What i really want to know is how many questions should i answer in the reading section to hit a 500?
Math and writing i will just answer what i know.
This S.A.T coming this October i feel so much more confident.</p>
<p>Bump!</p>
<p>You should answer as many as you feel comfortable answering. Generally, if you can eliminate 1 or more choices, it would be better to take an educated guess.</p>
<p>Go through the section and answer all the easy questions skipping all the difficult questions. If there is time at the end come back to the difficult questions. Many people say if you can eliminate 1 answer you should guess, but personally unless you can eliminate two answers I would not guess. If you do this and can get the easier questions correct I think you will reach your goal. Goodluck!</p>
<p>Statistically, a random guesses will decrease you score, guessing when only eliminating 1 answer will keep it the same, and guessing after eliminating 2 or more will raise your score</p>
<p>tl;dr; guess if you can eliminate 2 or more answers</p>
<p>wait OP said that he’s going for 1400-1600… isn’t the highest score 2400 or am i missing something </p>
<p>O_o</p>
<p>@Matt846 If you guess randomly on a multiple choice item with 5 questions where there is a 1/4 guessing penalty, then the expected value of your score on the question is 1<em>1/5-(4/5)</em>1/4=0. Guessing randomly, on average, will not hurt or help your score.</p>
<p>ah damnit you’re right lol</p>
<p>Guessing after deleting 2!
yomyomf I’m not trying to go to a irvy league school. I just want to go to a regular college. </p>
<p>You actually should be skipping the hardest questions. It’s NOT because of guessing penalty - as randomhser pointed out, by guessing</p>
<p>Instead, when you’re scoring a 400, you’re getting less than half the questions right. The hardest questions you have very little chance of getting right. But if you try them, you waste at least a minute per question. This is valuable time you should be spending making sure you get the easy questions correct!</p>
<p>This is a strategy I learned from prepscholar which teaches you how to know what questions to skip and how many questions to skip.</p>
<p>Is the reading section organize like the math? As in level 1/2/3/4/5 Questions</p>
<p>EDIT: It’s always good to read the post before commenting… deleted the text of my previous comment (can’t delete this comment itself though, sorry)</p>
<p>The sentence completion questions are ordered in difficulty, but the passage questions are not. Typically however you can tell what questions are more difficult for you - inference or theme questions, for example.</p>
<p>Ah, i see</p>