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Reading Comprehension · Function (paragraph)

PrepTest 101 · Section 1 · Question 13

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Function
The one idea it tests
What job does one whole paragraph do?
The basic logic
Read the paragraph's first sentence: it announces that reasons are coming for something described earlier. The job is to explain that earlier result.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “reasons”
  • “why”
  • “depends on”

Playground logic

The 'Why did it work?' paragraph explains why so many kids joined.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Save the Bluejay Garden →

Step 3 · Try the model question

What job does the 'Why did it work?' paragraph do in the story?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 101, Section 1, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Use your paragraph map: name the paragraph's job in a few words before looking at choices. Its opening sentence tells you it explains something from earlier; say what that is. Cross out Phantom Pieces that invent comparisons, and Saboteurs that describe groups splitting when the passage shows them uniting.