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Reading Comprehension · Organization

PrepTest 102 · 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
Organization
The one idea it tests
Map the big shape: first a current situation, then where it came from.
The basic logic
Ask whether paragraphs two and three look backward to explain paragraph one. If so, the shape is a situation plus its causes, not a debate or a list of solutions.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “traced”
  • “ironically”
  • “appropriately”

Playground logic

The mural passage first describes the side-issue years and the revival, then explains how the habit started and how it ended. That is a situation plus its roots.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 8–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Story Behind the Gym Wall Mural →

Step 3 · Try the model question

How is the mural passage arranged?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 102, 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.

Label each paragraph's job in a few words. Notice if later paragraphs explain the cause of what the first paragraph describes. Choose the shape that matches the whole passage. Reject choices that turn people into the main structure, or that invent debates, hypotheses, or solutions.