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Re:SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test by disjhshava on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:37PM (#21085825)
I ninja-edited my post. Previously the EV for uniform guessing was zero, because the points value for all the answers (1, -.25, -.25, -.25, -.25) summed to 0. Now the EV is positive because they got rid of the -.25 penalty.

To make things more complicated: if you were gunning for a high score in the old system, it was even more important to guess, because your partial points could get rounded up.

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