<p>as someone who has past 3 years of calculus, i do not recommend you to look at the pictures unless the problem explicitly states that the picture, if which is drawn to scale, should be beneficial to your answering process.</p>
<p>I took the SAT for the first time without studying for math at all (I was trying to figure out what the quadratic formula was when I was waiting in the testing hall, didnt figure it out =) and got an 800. </p>
<p>If anybody took the Dec test and remember there was a really annoying geometry problem with a picture drawn with a bunch of intersecting perpendicular and parallel lines and asked which angles were congruent. My first instinct was to not look at the pictures at all but instead based on the info provided, I constructed my own picture and it was totally different from the given one. If I took the given one, as I tried to do when I have finished the entire test while checking my answer, the answer I would have chosen would have been the trick answer which was based on the given graph, wrong answer.</p>
<p>If you see a picture, dont even bother. Read the question first, draw your own picture on the side</p>