Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 111 · Section 2 · 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

Detail

The one idea it tests

In a detail EXCEPT question, four jobs belong to the thing named; the answer is a job the passage gives to something else.

The basic logic

List everything the passage says the named element does. Then see which choice describes a job done by a different element.

Tiny words that decide it

“EXCEPT”
“while”
“also”

Playground logic

In the kid passage the low notes, not the characters, stand for the worn-out feeling of hard times.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Aunt Rosa's Banjo →

Step 3 · Try the model question

According to the kid passage, Rosa's characters do each thing listed EXCEPT:

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 111, Section 2, 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 every sentence about the element in the stem and list its jobs. Then look nearby for a different element with its own job. The answer usually borrows that neighbor's job, so check carefully which subject each verb belongs to.