Word: muddler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real secret, Owen maintains, amounts to code cracking; that is, mastering E.T.S.'s system for building an SAT and then turning that system to beat the test. A representative midrange SAT question is answerable by most bright students, eminently flunkable by slow ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs. Thus the square root of 4 is no good for the middle-to-hard portion of an SAT, since anyone may guess the right answer to be 2. But the square root of 9 is perfect: easy if you know your algebra (the answer...