Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 112 · 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

Function (examples)

The one idea it tests

A paired example usually shows a contrast that proves the paragraph's point.

The basic logic

Read the claim just before the pair: one kind of old writing gets expert help while another gets none. The pair illustrates that claim, one example on each side. Name the contrast exactly.

Tiny words that decide it

“but”
“ample”
“little or none”

Playground logic

Pip's riddles come with a full guide; Benny's go-kart plans come with nothing. The pair shows the gap Aunt Rosa describes.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Treehouse Notebooks →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The passage mentions Pip and Benny mainly in order to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, 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 the sentence with the paired examples and the claim right before it. Ask what each example stands for and what difference between them the author is pointing at. Choose the answer that names that exact difference, and avoid answers that turn it into a ranking of quality or a contrast the passage never draws.