How many can you leave out and still get a 12 or so?

[Psycho Doctor]

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If for some reason you didn't finish, how many can you leave out or get wrong and still get at least a 12 on each section? 😕

 

[YML]

i cant see any reason why you would leave nay blank. 1 minute left, bubble them in blindly.

as to how many you can get wrong, it varys from section to section, and from test to test. Generally you can get more questions wrong in ps then bs and more bs than vr PS>BS>VR.

ps ~ 20
BS ~ 13
VR ~ 8

 

[Pinkertinkle]

That's assuming the rest of the test is perfect.

 

[!dr_nick!]

Alright Psycho Doctor! Aiming for 12's 👍 On your way to becoming a fine gunner 😉

 

[Psycho Doctor]

Alright Psycho Doctor! Aiming for 12's 👍 On your way to becoming a fine gunner 😉

i thought the gunner was supposed to happen in undergrad....i thought i sort of missed that already 🙄

anyway don't most people aim for in the mid 30's? aiming for doesn't mean getting. 🙁 besides as someone pointed out, it assumes everything else is perfect before the guessing. and yea i didn't literally mean leave them blank, i meant randomly bubble them in without reading the questions, or whatever. i would never leave them totally blank....i might be dumb but i'm not that stupid 😛

 

[blz]

i cant see any reason why you would leave nay blank. 1 minute left, bubble them in blindly.

as to how many you can get wrong, it varys from section to section, and from test to test. Generally you can get more questions wrong in ps then bs and more bs than vr PS>BS>VR.

ps ~ 20
BS ~ 13
VR ~ 8

There's no way you can get 20 wrong on PS and get a 12. Look at the AAMC curves, 10-7 wrong is usually a 12. Same goes for BS. 20 wrong is more like a 10 scaled.

 

[BisMuOxo]

NEVER EVER EVER leave any question blank!!!!

ALWAYS guess at the end if you need to.

 

[Psycho Doctor]

so what strategies do they teach you i those classes...

is it best to go quickly thru all the questions and guess at everything that you aren't sure about immediately; or do you spend more time analyzing them and then if you don't finish quess at all at the end totally blind?

I know the strategy is different than the SATs b/c for those it hurt to guess incorrectly and you were only supposed to guess if you could eliminate 2 choices

 

[BisMuOxo]

Make sure you have time to think about each question. Do not spend several minutes thinking about one question; if you don't know the answer relatively quickly, move on. The answer is not going to spontaneously burst into your mind if you think long enough. Having to just mark random answers for the last 10 questions is sure to hurt your score.

Come back to the questions you couldn't answer at the end of the test. If you don't have time to think about them again, then resort to just marking a random answer.