SAT Math: The Ultimate Guessing Trick

"In my research, this method has about a 55% rate." I bet he used the guessing method as his research.

"Focusing on standardized testing means students learn the material!" The material: "Get a passing grade on this test by any means necessary."

"Always pick an answer rather than leaving blank" Negative marking: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"

"Always pick an answer rather than leaving something blank" Jee exams with negative markings: Allow us to introduce ourselves

My strategy: *Tries to see a pattern throughout my answer choices*

Teacher: David why didn't you show your process? David Blaine: A magician never reveals his secrets.

turns out i've been accidentally doing a similar methodology for years. Whenever I get a multiple choice test I always look for the outlier answers that I know it absolutely cannot be, and then look for two answers that are incredibly similar. 9 times out of 10 I find that in quizzes the tester will always make one choice that is incredibly similar to the right answer, but fudge the number slightly to make sure that if you're guessing at best it comes down to a 50% chance

On the very first day of an AP History class I had in high school, the teacher gave us a quiz with questions like this (some related to history topics we'd never talk about in class -- some extremely confusing math questions, some science, etc). He told us to read the instructions carefully before starting (all the instructions told us to skip to the next section over and over til you got to the end of the quiz). At the end of the quiz, the final line said to not answer any of the preceding questions, and this quiz was only to test who read and followed the instructions. I am horrible at math, and was on the verge of tears at thought of failing a quiz my first day in class before reading those instructions. xD

Teacher: “show your work.” Me: “well there’s a 20% chance that B is the right answer.”

Meanwhile, guessing on SAT English: “You already know this language you fool, just say it out loud and see which one sounds right!” gets kicked out for speaking during the test

This is absolutely true. The majority of my mistakes on the math SAT were just small mistakes I made near the end.

Step 1. A^3=3a Step 2. A^2=3 (by dividing by a like this we also need to note that a could also equal 0) Step 3. A=+ or - 3^(1/2) (sorry if that looks weird, don’t have all the symbols I need on my phone keyboards)

Test: “Explain your answer.” Me: “Nah, I can’t reveal all my secrets. That’s how they get you.”

Everyone: (study’s for exam) Me: (study’s how to guess the exam)

Thank you YouTube algorithm pushing this in my feed after 11 years this video was uploaded when I need to watch it like 8 years ago. Now I’m working my full time job

I love multiple choice questions where you have to pick the right phrase to fill in the blank, and literally only one of them even fits grammatically, let alone factually.

“Well I haven’t chosen C in a while” is the ultimate guessing trick

My method: “Hmm, four c’s in a row, that can’t be right”

I love how instead of solving a 8 grade problem you provide guess tips for ppl who suppose to be enrolled to uni

Chemistry professor in my freshman year of college decided for one exam to make all the answers A. You can imagine the chaos that ensured once the test was over, but it was so messed up because you couldn’t actually guess all A just in case she decided to throw a few curveballs in there. Turned out it was all A after all and everyone who answered a few questions not A immediately knew they got those answers wrong