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Reading Comprehension · Main Point

PrepTest 104 · Section 2 · Question 7

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Main Point
The one idea it tests
In a puzzle-and-solution passage, the main point is the author's final answer to the puzzle.
The basic logic
Paragraph one sets up a surprise, the middle weighs two explanations, and the end says what the groups were really doing. The top bun combines 'they did not enforce the rules' with 'they mainly defended members'.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “rather than”
  • “thus”
  • “more plausible”

Playground logic

The kid passage asks why the helper clubs rarely punished anyone and ends: the clubs acted as shields for members instead of rule enforcers. That is the top bun.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Helpers Who Never Told →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which choice best captures the overall conclusion the kid passage reaches?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 7 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 7 in your official copy and answer it first.

Identify the puzzle in the opening paragraph and the author's final answer in the last one. Predict a sentence that states what the groups actually did instead of what was expected. Reject choices that flip a cause, that turn a comparison into a different claim, or that invent a timeline.