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Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 112 · Section 2 · Question 23

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Attitude (RC)
The one idea it tests
Weigh the author's worries against the author's hopes.
The basic logic
The author lists real problems but keeps saying success is possible if certain things happen. That mix is hopeful with care, not gloom and not certainty.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “hopeful”
  • “if”
  • “but”

Playground logic

Lulu lists real worries about the card, yet she keeps saying it can work with patience and if the league shows rules help. That is hopeful, but watchful.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 21–26). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Fair Play Card →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage most likely feels which way about the Fair Play Card succeeding?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 23 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 23 in your official copy and answer it first.

List the author's warning signs and hope signs side by side. Notice whether the hopes depend on conditions. If both columns are full and the hopes come with 'if', the attitude sits in the cautious-positive middle. Reject the extremes on both ends, and reject any choice that says the author does not care.