Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 104 · Section 2 · Question 9

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

An example usually serves the sentence right before it.

The basic logic

Ask what job the named example does on the Job Board. If the sentence before makes a general claim and the example shows one case of it, the example is a Helper that illustrates.

Tiny words that decide it

“for example”
“even”
“some”

Playground logic

Right before the Hilltop club appears, the passage says some clubs blocked punishment. Hilltop is one case of that blocking.

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

The kid passage mentions the Hilltop club most likely in order to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Read the sentence just before the example. Ask whether the example shows, proves, or challenges that sentence. Predict a job title from the Job Board. Reject choices that make one case universal or that invent objections or theories not yet in play.