Do you run into articles where you already know the answers?

Test Preparation
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<p>I’m noticing this <em>a lot</em> in all the science passages in the prep books I’m using. I could practically answer a lot of the science questions without reading the passage at all (in fact, this once saved my life on my ACT reading comprehension test, as it contained an astronomy passage - without which I would have almost surely ran out of time).</p>

<p>But is this common?</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. You may have knowledge about the subject, but it is important to always go by the passage. The argument in the passage may not necessarily correspond to your knowledge of the scientific thought in the field, and they try to trap you with answers that you know or believe to be true that aren’t actually anywhere in the passage, and thus wrong.</p>