[RobAtticus]

The questions, judging from the ones in the article, seem to be about testing one's logical reasoning skills. The SATs, at least the qualitative portion, attempt to measure one's math and logical reasoning skills. It seems entirely reasonable to me to assume that someone who scored highly on the SATs should not be tripped up by these kind of questions, and the finding that they are actually more inclined to be tripped up surprises me.

It might be better just to look at a student's qualitative portion of the exam, since one could score highly on the SATs while still getting a (relatively) poor score on the section most similar to these kinds of questions.