<p>I remember cracking open a Princeton Review SAT book back 4 or 5 years ago when I was in the 7th grade. I was going to take the SAT the first time.</p>
<p>The only thing I remembered from the PR book was Joe Bloggs, and he has helped me immensely :). I constantly apply him to weed out answer choices that a typical and unsuspecting test taker would immediately pick. </p>
<p>While the answer choices on a real SAT may not be as ridiculous as Dusterbug’s example, the overall concept applies. </p>
<p>For example, I was able to immediately find a problem on the 2010-2011 College Board practice SAT on which Joe Bloggs could be put to work:</p>
<p>“What is the greatest possible area of a triangle with one side length 7 and another side length 10?”</p>
<p>A) 17 - a Joe Bloggs answer; 7 + 10 = 17.
B) 34
C) 35
D) 70 - another Joe Bloggs answer; 7 * 10 = 70. But remember, we’re dealing with triangles here.
E) 140</p>