you might get “accidentally” by guessing the correct answer. With practice,
however, you’ll see that it’s often easy to eliminate several answer choices on
some of the questions.
THE ANSWER GRID HAS NO HEART
It sounds simple, but it’s extremely important: Don’t make mistakes filling out
your answer grid. When time is short, it’s easy to get confused going back and
forth between your test booklet and your grid. If you know the answers but
misgrid, you won’t get the points. Here’s how to avoid mistakes.
HIT THE SPOT
A common cause of major SAT subject test disasters is filling in all of
the right answers—in the wrong spots. Every time you skip a question,
circle it in your test booklet and be double sure that you skip it on the
answer grid as well.Always circle the questions you skip. Put a big circle in your test booklet around
any question numbers that you skip. When you go back, these questions will
be easy to locate. Also, if you accidentally skip a box on the grid, you’ll be able
to check your grid against your booklet to see where you went wrong.
Always circle the answers you choose. Circling your answers in the test booklet
makes it easier to check your grid against your booklet.