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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 104 · Section 3 · Question 3

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Function (paragraph purpose)
The one idea it tests
A paragraph's job is what it does, and whose voice is doing it.
The basic logic
Use your Paragraph Map. Ask: how many techniques does this paragraph cover, and who is speaking? Reporting critics is not the same as the author arguing.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “But critics”
  • “they argue”
  • “Moreover”
  • “Finally”

Playground logic

Priya's third paragraph picks one trick, the Fairness Quiz, and lists Lulu's complaints about it. It reports criticism of one method; it does not propose anything new.

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

The third paragraph of Priya's article mainly serves to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

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

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 3 in your official copy and answer it first.

Look at your map note for the paragraph. Count how many methods it discusses and identify whose criticisms appear. Pick the answer with the right number and the right voice. Drop answers that move the author's later proposal into this paragraph or flip the attitude.