Why do the SAT reading answer choices all look correct
It shows up as a passage and a question that asks for one specific thing. All four choices sound like the passage.
The trap
Three of the choices are usually true. Some are lifted almost word for word from the passage, which is exactly why students pick them. One is the finding and one is the caveat. Both feel safe because you can point at the line that says them. Neither answers the question that was asked. The fourth catches a different student. That student remembers roughly what the passage was about and fills in a detail the text never gave.
The rule
Reread the question before you touch the choices. On this test the wrong answers are usually true, and only one of them answers what was asked.
If it keeps happening
When this one fires three tests running, the student is answering from memory of the passage, not from the question. The fix is a habit, and it builds fast when someone is checking. For a student in the 1000s, it is the first thing we would fix in Reading and Writing. It is the most common trap in the section at that score.
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