BioWare patched in that the system remembers what you’ve done towards the quest targets as soon as you hit level 3 even if you don’t have the quest yet, so you may hit the quest already having completed the requirements.
pretty much every review said that quest was utterly shit - quote “This was the point where I lost the will to live” - but I guess they couldn’t just remove it, so they tweaked things to mean you pretty much did it without knowing it.