<p>This option shows up now and then.</p>
<p>e) information is not sufficient to answer</p>
<p>Is this ever the correct answer? I’ve done a few SAT math sections and this has never been the correct answer.</p>
<p>that has come up for me on a SAT II Math level 1 test and the answer was in fact E) not enough information. Despite the fact that it seldom comes up, you cannot say that it’s never the answer.</p>
<p>think of it as the “no error” choice in writing, albeit much (MUCH!) rarer as the correct answer in math. Choose it if it seems right, but always check it again at the end because, as you said, it probably isn’t the right answer xDD</p>
<p>^the two posts above do not confirm that this has actually been an answer before on SAT math</p>
<p>has anyone actually taken a real SAT where this was the correct answer for a math question?</p>
<p>When it’s the choice for a hard lvl question, 99% chance it’s not the answer.</p>
<p>Yea, there was this probability question. I don’t remember it very well but I think it said something like find the probability of something being chosen from a certain number but it didn’t give the number of the things to be chosen That was a really easy question so it shouldn’t give you any problems, but don’t eliminate “not enough info” choices automatically, they might be the correct answers.</p>
<p>“When it’s the choice for a hard lvl question, 99% chance it’s not the answer.”</p>
<p>Right.</p>
<p>I know this is like 5 years old so it doesnt matter at all but I took the SAT yesterday and spent like 5 minutes on a simple question because e was the answer and in all of the practice that I had every done it was never the answer.</p>
<p>Even though this thread is 5 yrs old, I still think the issue of whether “it cannot be determined” is correct still comes up a lot.</p>
<p>“It cannot be determined” does come up occasionally. I took the SAT in Oct. 2011, and one of the correct answers was E, “it cannot be determined” for a mid- to hard-level question. Spent about 5 minutes rereading the question since I had never seen that come up so it was a first for me. Got an 800 on the math so it must’ve been correct.</p>
<p>Personally, I think every multiple choice question on the SAT and ACT Math should have a “can’t be determined from the info given” or “none of the above” as an answer choice, and it should be the correct answer about 20% of the time (from 5 answer choices), but maybe that’s too mean :).</p>
<p>Well, it would greatly reduce randomly plugging in the answer choices. Personally I wouldn’t mind every SAT math problem being a grid-in problem, or similar to the AIME where each answer is an integer between 000 and 999.</p>
<p>It would be a great choice if it read “(e) Information is not sufficient for me to answer.”</p>
<p>I think it’s generally the right answer where the question is set up in a way to expose a test-taker who jumps to assumptions. Sometimes it’s kind of obvious, like ignoring negative roots.</p>
<p>^Except people that don’t know anything can correctly pick e), insufficient information <em>for me</em> to answer. :)</p>
<p>Questions that allow traps and bad assumptions (like ignoring the negative root of (x-4)^2 = 16, or assuming a triangle is a right triangle) usually have answer choices that follow from those bad assumptions.</p>
<p>Picking the wrong answer because it makes sense to you will get you zero points plus a point penalty.</p>