Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 112 · 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 concession admits part of the other side's case before the author pushes back.

The basic logic

Look at where the quoted words sit: right before a 'but'. Words placed there usually grant something true to the other side. Ask what job they do for the author, not what they say.

Tiny words that decide it

“while”
“true”
“nonetheless”

Playground logic

When Lulu writes that the club can be kind and friendly, she is handing Marcus one point, so her 'still, it is not a homeroom' sounds fair.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Lulu's Newsletter Column: Can a Club Replace Homeroom? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Lulu's remark that the club 'can be kind and friendly' mainly serves to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, 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 the quoted words and read the sentence after them. If a turn word follows, the words are probably a concession. Ask whose view they help and what the author does next. Pick the answer that names the job (granting a point before pushing back), and skip answers that make the words attack or prove something they do not.