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I hate to defend test drafters, but I will. As a former teacher, I can tell you it is difficult to draft clean questions -- questions with clean answers that test the info one is trying to test.
The intent, I think, of the screwball questions is not that the situations will arise, but that they test the underlying rules. In theory, someone that can parse through the screwy scenario understands the underlying rules. Theory and practice, however, are often different, and, as frequently happens, the screwy questions often test test-taking skills as much as knowledge . . ..
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