Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 110 · Section 1 · Question 13

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (what a group no longer believes)

The one idea it tests

When new evidence knocks out an old blanket belief, the belief the group gives up is the all-or-nothing version.

The basic logic

Use the Voice Tracker: find the group's old view and the new evidence. Ask which absolute statement the new evidence breaks. Look for the 'all' claim that the new cases contradict.

Tiny words that decide it

“never”
“all”
“some”
“no longer”

Playground logic

The coaches used to say a skill picked up during a season never reaches later seasons. Ms. Rivera's notebooks show cases where it does, so that 'never' belief is the one that falls.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 13–18). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Grandpa's Hand-Me-Down Skills Idea →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Based on the kid passage, which belief would many coaches probably give up after seeing Ms. Rivera's notebooks?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 110, Section 1, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the sentence where the experts' old position is stated, and note its strength (always, never, all). Then find the new evidence. The right answer is the old blanket claim that the new cases break. Cross out choices the new evidence actually supports, and choices the passage never ties to the experts at all.