[greymule]

I'm pulling your leg, of course, ctblu40.

Even Educational Testing Service, which every year spends millions of dollars to develop just the SAT verbal, gets caught on a question for which there are actually two correct or even no correct answers. I admit they seldom make mistakes as obvious as the one you cited from the NCAA test, but they still make them.

A couple of years ago, ETS had to revise some PSAT scores because it had erroneously included the following sentence as a grammatically correct example:

Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise from and express the injustices African Americans have endured.

(Anyone know why this sentence is NOT grammatically correct? Only one person contested the question, but that person had a valid point.)

Most of us take tests on certain codes every year, and there are inevitably several questions on each test that someone with a real stake in a score could contest and win. We often find ourselves asking, "Is this a trick question of some kind, or are they simply trying to remind us of a particular interpretation but didn't take much care in writing the question?"