On the SAT, is it better to omit more questions or answer more and get them wrong?

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On each section of the SAT, is it better to omit more questions, or to answer more questions and get them wrong? Which strategy would lower my overall score?

✅ Answers

  • It depends if you can eliminate any answers. If you can’t, just omit it. (Because they deduct / point, I think, for each incorrect answer.) If you can narrow it down to two or three, you might want to take a guess…if you’re feeling a bit confidant or lucky.
  • If you can narrow the answer down to two options, then guess. If not, then omit.
  • its better to omit questions

    think of it this way
    say to get an you need a total of points

    so you get total points correct, that would be approx like a or something (idk im making numbers up)

    and then say you have questions left to answer and you did not know ANY of these.
    so if you omitted them. you would just have a total of points all together out of . however if you answered all of them and got them wrong, since the policy is for each wrong answer its / a point off, so it would be a total of points out of , so omitting is better than not answering

  • Do the math.
    I’m not up on the current scoring, but I seem to recall it being choices each question and you lost a quarter point for each wrong. In that case, if you could definitely eliminate one choice, skipping or randomly guessing should be equivalent. If you can eliminate more, definitely guess. If you can’t eliminate any, don’t guess.

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