Nobody, regardless of their personal test-taking style, should be first actually calculating 14.2697541/0.1379 and then looking at the options.
How exactly is someone who often gets confused and/or slowed down by the options in multiple choice tests supposed to know that these particular options wont confuse them or slow them down
without looking at them? Such a student would have to play the percentages, and if ignoring the choices and working the problems is a net benefit, then that's what they will do
every time.
If that's what they do in this example, they deserve to do badly and I hope they will, because I don't want someone who blindly follows their favourite method, without considering whether it's appropriate in this case, in my university class, thank-you-very-much!
Specifically, an amount of test-savviness that would lead someone to think "wow, that's a hard sum, bet I'm not really supposed to work that out" and decide not to use their usual procedure here doesn't seem too much to ask.
That said, from what I've seen of SAT questions specifically, the kind of question you couldn't sensibly work out first is rare, perhaps non-existent, on that test.
