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If you have an older brother or sister who took the SAT before 2016, they may remember the old format, which had a penalty for filling in a wrong answer.

So please take note: The SAT in its current form has no penalty for filling in a wrong answer. This goes for all four sections, the English as well as the math sections.

Obviously, then, you want to make sure that you fill in at least some answer for each multiple-choice question on the two math sections. That’s 45 questions, so by pure chance, you can expect to get about 11 questions right just by making wild guesses.

Let’s take that thinking a step further: If you don’t fill guesses for all the questions you don’t have time to think about, you’ll be competing against a ton of other students who are guessing. So, bottom line, you can’t afford not to guess every question you don’t know the answer to.

What about the gridded-response questions? Well, because these questions are entirely open ended, you don’t have much chance of answering them correctly with a wild guess. But if you have any idea what the answer might be, go ahead and grid it in. Worst case, doing this won’t lose you any points.