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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 104 · Section 3 · Question 2

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
A colorful quote means whatever the speaker's complaint around it means.
The basic logic
Read the sentence before the quote. It tells you which technique the quote attacks. Then ask: what does this technique ask people to do that the critic thinks they cannot do?
Tiny words that decide it
  • “Nor”
  • “ignore”
  • “beyond”

Playground logic

Lulu's bacon joke attacks the 'forget what you heard' trick. Her point: referees can't be counted on to call the game only on what they see that day while blocking out what they already know.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Who Can Referee the Big Game? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Lulu compares the 'forget everything' trick to asking Biscuit to unsmell bacon most likely because she thinks referees can't be counted on to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 104, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the quote, then read the sentence just before it to see which technique it targets. Say in plain words what that technique asks people to do. The answer names the mental task the critic thinks is impossible. Reject choices that belong to a different technique or a different paragraph.