Spot the Trap flips SAT reading practice around. The right answer is already on the table, cleared. Your job is the three wrong answers. For each one you name its M.O., the exact trap the test-writer built it from: too strong, true but irrelevant, opposite, out of scope, or half-right. Profiling the distractors that way is the reading skill the SAT rewards, ruling the wrong answers out on sight.
Each case gives you a short passage, a question, and the correct answer, already cleared. Below it sits a board of three suspects, the wrong answers. Click a suspect, then pick the M.O. that fits from the five trap types. Name it on the first read and you score more and build a streak; miss and you get one more look before the case goes cold. Six cases make a shift, and then you get a report of which traps you caught and which ones slipped past.
Yes. It runs in your browser with no login and no signup. The Forge diagnostic it links to is free as well, so you can practice the traps here and then see where they cost you points.
Spotting wrong-answer traps. On SAT reading, the wrong choices are built from a handful of repeatable patterns: claims that are too strong, statements that are true but do not answer the question, reversals of the passage, ideas out of scope, and answers that start right then add one wrong claim. The game drills you on naming those five patterns so you recognize them on the real test.
No, and that is the point. The correct answer is shown to you from the start. You work only on the three wrong answers, deciding what each one is doing and tagging its trap. It is the reverse of a normal practice set, and it builds the habit of ruling wrong answers out quickly.
Not sure this is where your points are going? The free Forge diagnostic will tell you. More on digital SAT wrong-answer traps.
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