Making an educated guess is always better than taking a random guess. After all, when making an educated guess, we have eliminated one or more answer choices and have likely done some of the work, allowing us to narrow the number of selectable answer choices. On the other hand, with random guessing, we are guessing blindly among the answer choices.

So, the time to make an educated guess is when we essentially “hit a brick wall” on a question, but, at a bare minimum, can still eliminate at least one answer choice, significantly increasing our chance of arriving at a correct answer. Also, remember that just because we are guessing now does not mean we can’t come back and reattempt the question later.

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep