***January 2014 SAT (US ONLY)***

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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<p>No, I don’t know. Be more specific.</p>

462

<p>It was a question with 3 equations and it asking for a shaded graph. </p>

463

<p>Oh. I remember the question but not the answers.</p>

464

<p>How is this for my avatar? </p>

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465

<p>So if I get 2 wrong on M, that’s 3 raw points? </p>

466

<p>^no. It’s -2 from however many raw points you had to begin with.</p>

467

<p>Oh so it’s not 51 but 52? I’m confused… </p>

468

<p>^yeah that would be a 52. You lose a point for every 4 questions you miss. Missing only 2 would not lose you a point.</p>

469

<p>What if I missed 3 questions? </p>

470

<p>^Like I said, you miss a point for every 4 questions you miss. So -3 would be 3 less than however many questions there were.</p>

471

<p>However, if you missed 4, that would be an automatic -5. Likewise, if you missed 8, it would be -10.</p>

472

<p>I’m fairly certain that you’re wrong. The test subtracts 1/4 of a point for every wrong question and 2 or 3 wrong would round up to losing an additional point.</p>

<p><a href=“Your SAT Score Report Explained – SAT Suite | College Board”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/reports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

473

<p>You get 1 raw point for every correct answer and lose 0.25 points for every incorrect multiple choice answer. THEN you round to the nearest whole number. The secret formula can be found at the back of every practice test you have ever taken…</p>

<p><a href=“SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board”>SAT Practice and Preparation – SAT Suite | College Board;

<p>If you like starting at 54 and working backwards, you need to subtract 1.0 points for every incorrect grid-in and subtract 1.25 points for every incorrect multiple choice question. AFTER you do your subtracting, only THEN do you round off to the nearest whole number. .75 and .5 get rounded up, while .25 gets rounded down.</p>

<p>1 incorrect mc questions is a score of 52.75 which gets rounded up to 53.
2 incorrect mc questions is a score of 51.50 which gets rounded up to 52.
3 incorrect mc questions is a score of 50.25 which gets rounded down to 50 (bummer to get 3 wrong).
4 incorrect mc questions is a score of 49.00 which is already round.
5 incorrect mc questions is a score of 47.75 which gets rounded up to 48.
6 incorrect mc questions is a score of 46.50 which gets rounded up to 47.
7 incorrect mc questions is a score of 45.25 which gets rounded down to 45 (bummer to get 7 wrong).
8 incorrect mc questions is a score of 44.00 which is already round.</p>

<p>Notice that only one out of every four scores results in rounding down. The so called ‘guessing penalty’ is not all it’s cracked up to be for the one-off guesser. </p>

474

<p>Lol yea, thanks :slight_smile: </p>

475

<p>5 more days! </p>

476

<p>so stressed!</p>

477

<p>I have less than a month to study for vocab, I have flashcards and a book for it…but would it be better just to study vocabs in the blue book SC questions or use the flashcards and the book? </p>

478

<p>@ThePariah
Yeah, the BB is pretty good. I made a list of all the words I wasn’t familiar with. :)</p>

479

<p>Aw okay, thanks.
I guess I wasted money on the flashcards o,o </p>

480

<p>I used Direct Hits Core Vocabulary 1 and 2 (found them on quizlet) to study vocab.</p>