Huh?

No, for every question left blank, you receive zero points and lose zero points. For every question that you answer incorrectly, you lose 1/4 of a point. Okay?

That said, randomly bubbling in the answers is statistically neither going to help you nor hurt you. Let’s say that you randomly bubbled in 5 questions. Statistically speaking, you would have gotten one of those right. That’s one point for you. However, the other four are wrong. So you lost 4*(1/4)=1 point. So you got one point and lost one point for a net gain/loss of 0 points. The same thing would have happened if you hadn’t answered any of them.

However, statistics often don’t model exactly what happens in real life. If you have to guess, it’s probably better to leave the bubbles blank than to randomly fill it out if you are completely unable to eliminate even a single answer choice. That way, you have no chance of answering all of them wrong and no chance of taking points away from the answers that you got right.

If you don’t know the answer, and you completely guess without eliminating any options then you are KILLING your score. If you leave them blank, you don’t lose any points, which is what you should have done.

There’s always next time.