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SLS New PSAT
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^^ LOL I agree. No one should ever take a standardized test with the idea is it OK to miss a few questions. You should strive to get the best possible score. I am not sure how having a 'goal' in mind before taking these tests makes any difference.
frenzymando
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Some people only read 3 of the 4 passages on the reading section of the ACT(which is a huge time crunch), and focus on those 3 sections. This strategy isn't all that great if your goal is a 36, but if your goal is a 25 it can be helpful. Based on what your goal is, there are different strategies you can use to achieve your goal.I am not sure how having a 'goal' in mind before taking these tests makes any difference.
No one should ever take a standardized test with the idea is it OK to miss a few questions .
If you go into the test with the mindset "I must get every single question correct and get a 36" then you will quickly come across a question that you don't understand and you will waste a ton of time trying to solve that one question and run out of time on the rest of the questions and get a worse score than you would have if you had just guessed on that question. It is ok to miss a few questions, and IMO you should go in with the mindset that it is ok to miss a few questions instead of the mindset that you must get every single question right. A person trying to get a 30 shouldn't spend 10 hours trying to learn logarithms because only 1 logarithm question shows up on each test. Not knowing how to do logarithms is ok if your goal is a 30, you can miss that one logarithm question and be ok. That person should spend those 10 hours refining their trigonometry skills because a lot more than 1 trig questions show up on each test and now being good at trig is not ok if your goal is a 30. Once you start getting really high scores, then you should focus on the finer points like logarithms.
You should strive to get the best possible score.
I strongly disagree. You should strive for the best score you, personally, are capable of, and that might not be a 36. You might only be capable of getting a 25 in the reading section and the aforementioned strategy might be what allows you to get a 25. If that's the case, then use the strategy and get the best possible score your are capable of.