The College Board announced a new grading policy for AP exams that no longer penalizes students for guessing. The old policy deducted a fraction of a point for each incorrect multiple choice answer, but starting this May, students will only receive points for correct answers.

The new grading policy allows for a more fair test, College Board spokesperson Jennifer Topiel said.

“Rights-only scoring will enable us to more easily compare difficulty, ensuring that all scores on all test forms can be compared to each other,” Topiel said.

Many students said they support the new policy because they won’t have to worry about guessing during the test.

“Whenever I’d come across a question I didn’t know on the test, I would always leave it blank and not even guess,” junior Shruti Gujaran said. “Getting rid of the guessing penalty gives more leeway. I’m not as scared to take AP exams.”

Social studies resource teacher Robert Mathis said he believes the new policy will ease students’ stress.

“You’ve worked hard, and you have to sit there and think, ‘I sort of know this and I can eliminate one choice—is that enough to guess?’” Mathis said. “You’ve got enough trouble trying to know the knowledge, and then you have to worry about this gamesmanship. Let them  just take the test.”