Is this how I should handle some SAT math traps?

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<p>As I’m doing a lot of drilling, I’m always aware of the traps in the medium and hard questions. It seems that whenever something comes up that you would need a good amount of logic and knowledge to come up, many would assume that it’s not correct or don’t even bother to try it. IT was one of those I, II, III questions, and III made no sense to me but that means that ETS knows that I would discard it since I didn’t know about it. </p>

<p>I thought in a totally opposite way by thinking this is what they want me to think and they know that it wouldn’t be fair to those who did know that specific concept that others could get it right because they didn’t bother to try it because it was too hard. I guessed the ambiguous and I got it right. IT seems like you can eliminate 2-3 choices immediately on hard questions: the normal way that you would do it and the extreme #s. Anyone else feel a similar way?</p>

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<p>see i do try that sometimes, but i feel that CB sometimes does want you to fall in the trap of trying to eliminate answers the “extreme way,” when in reality they are actually correct and you are just looking too much into it. I try to basically apply what i know in math and then try figuring out numbers to apply to the problem to see if they work out, and most of the times in the cases of the roman numeral questions if you rule out like III, about half of the answer choices will go away with it.</p>