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.There are 67 questions on the 3 Critical Reading sections.
If you answer 64 questions correctly and leave 3 questions blank, you score 800.
If you answer 64 questions correctly and answer the other 3 questions incorrectly, you score 780.
That is a big penalty.
I follow the logic of the penalty for wrong answers. It's a correction for guessing.
But the 1/4 point deduction over-corrects because in reality students don't make random guesses. In reality, they systematically guess the wrong answer. At least, that's what I see with C.
I'm telling C. not to make any guesses at all.
I'll let you know how that goes.
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Boy, the "recentering" really changed the scoring on the verbal section! I got a single question wrong and was knocked down to a 750.
This, and other reasons, are why I like the ACT better.
SusanS
Which test are you taking?
The 2nd edition of the Blue Book says you can get 3 or 4 wrong & get an 800.
(Are you thinking about the test you took for college?)
I should try taking a sample ACT.
C. didn't do any better on the ACT sample than on the SAT.
Did better on PSAT than on ACT PLAN, as I recall.
Yep, I was referring to when I took the pre-recentered SAT back in '94. Missing a single question was then enough to go from an 800 down to a 750. I don't know what I would've gotten had I skipped one rather than answering incorrectly, but it still wouldn't have been an 800.
oh - I remember that!
Right.
Now you can miss around .... is it 3?
Something like that (but let me check).
I'm feeling proud because I dug out my ACT book, flipped the pages to a "challenging" algebra problem, and solved it instantly.
The ACT just seems to be less tricky to me. The math is elementary algebra, algebra 1 and 2, and then a few trig questions.
And you're not penalized for guessing.
And it's a bit shorter.
SusanS
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