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The joke of that technique is these questions become a pattern unto themselves. Despite middling grades in high school, I aced a number of standardized tests in large part because the "bullshit" gotcha questions stuck out like sore thumbs to me.
Again, I throw back to the person listening for conversational queues in the banging of their washing machine.
You shouldn't trust pattern recognition on its face. It's deceptively easy to pick out a false signal in white noise.
There's more to be said on this, with certain schools (particularly religious or highly ideological academic settings) focusing on uncritical acceptance of official dogma or a state-designated axiomatic understanding of a certain subject. But that goes above and beyond teaching people not to trust their pattern recognition skills.