SAT Question of the Day

[JoeH]

Mr Downtown wrote:
This seems to test familiarity with idiomatic English, not actual knowledge of rules of grammar, much less propensity for success in college study. It's most effective use would seem to be in weeding out testtakers who come from a non–English speaking home.

The verb tenses still don't match, even if the question can also be figured out by the use of a common idiom. It might weed out English as a second language persons, but it will also get a fair number of English speakers who will get it wrong. Similar to a lot of SAT questions I have seen, many have more than one way to figure out the correct answer.