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Is it the writer being confused, or did they add a penalty for incorrect guesses for a few years? I took it in 2010 and am quite confident that AP tests were th
by tbihl 10y ago
Is it the writer being confused, or did they add a penalty for incorrect guesses for a few years? I took it in 2010 and am quite confident that AP tests were the only thing doing that at the time.
- sokoloff 10y agoWhen I took the SAT in 1982, 1983, and twice in the late 1980s, there was a (statistically fair) penalty for wrong answers. It was set such that if you could eliminate even one answer as "surely incorrect", it became advantageous to guess among the rest of the choices.
- Spooky23 10y agoIn the 90s, you lost a quarter credit for incorrect answers.