Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 111 · Section 2 · 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

The one idea it tests

A function question asks why the author put something there, not what it says.

The basic logic

Read the sentence just before the example. The example almost always backs up the claim right ahead of it.

Tiny words that decide it

“for example”
“nonetheless”
“in addition”

Playground logic

Lulu's snow jail escape comes right after 'plenty of them took charge,' so it is there to show a case of that take-charge behavior.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Snow Fort War Videos →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The kid passage mentions Lulu's escape from the snow jail mainly to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 111, Section 2, 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.

Find where the example sits in the paragraph and read the claim right before it, especially after a contrast word. Ask: what point does this case prove? Choose the answer that names that point, and skip choices that pull the example into a different paragraph's job.