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Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 102 · Section 1 · Question 21

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Primary Purpose
The one idea it tests
The purpose names the author's main move against a prediction, plus the tool the author uses to do it.
The basic logic
Pick a verb (question, argue, propose) and an object. The author doubts a prediction of absorption by showing that the shared trend actually strengthens group identity.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “however”
  • “obviously”
  • “reinforce”

Playground logic

The kid passage author mainly questions the Big Blob prediction that Maple Street will melt into Hilltop, and does it by arguing that shared activities help protect the school's identity.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 14–21). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Room Traditions of Maple Street →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage is mainly trying to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 102, Section 1, Question 21 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 21 in your official copy and answer it first.

Ask what the whole passage is for, not one paragraph. Name the view it questions and the reason it offers instead. The right answer pairs the right verb with both parts. Reject answers that stretch to many theories, deny a force the author grants, invent motives, or speak in the critics' voice.