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Should I guess on the SAT?

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  • Laura Rheinauer

    Associate Director, Educational Connections
    www.ectutoring.com  
    703-934-8282

    A native of Allentown Pennsylvania, Laura Rheinauer received both her B.A. in History and M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Lehigh University.  Passionate about the field of education, she wrote her Master's thesis on efficacy issues surrounding after-school tutoring programs.  Throughout her undergrad and graduate years she worked as a reading tutor. After working in admissions at both Lehigh and Dickinson College, Laura now assists high school juniors and seniors in making their college application stand out to an admissions committee.  Laura moved down to VA to join Educational Connections as Associate Director to oversee the SSAT administration, test prep, and specialized reading programs.  Orton-Gillingham and Wilson trained, Laura helps place students with reading disabilities in appropriate multi-sensory programs with their assigned tutor.

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    Laura Rheinauer: I don't encourage guessing on the SAT. Random guessing is not going to increase your score. In fact, it will probably decrease your score. I have definitely heard the stories of kids that will go a, b, c, d or start making words b, a, d and that's not going to increase your score, I promise you. If you can make a good educated guess now and down the answer choices, knowing for certain, it's definitely not this one, definitely not that one, go ahead and make an educated guess. The only instance where random guessing could potentially help you would be in the grid-in section doing the math free response. No points are ever deducted if you get a wrong answer. So I do encourage you to at least put something down. But no, random guessing won't help you out.

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