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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 112 · Section 2 · Question 5

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Function (paragraph)
The one idea it tests
A whole paragraph can belong to someone else's voice.
The basic logic
Ask whose claims the paragraph is building. If it lists the features one side points to and gives examples, it develops that side's claim, even if the author disagrees later.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “claim”
  • “for one”
  • “second”

Playground logic

Lulu's middle paragraph is Marcus's case: the shared love, the green card, the no-yelling rule, the sympathy book. She is laying out his side before answering it.

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

What is the main job of Lulu's middle paragraph?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 5 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 5 in your official copy and answer it first.

Read the paragraph's first sentence and ask whose view it sets up. Check whether the examples support that view. Then describe the paragraph's job in a few words before you look at the choices. Choose the one that names the right voice and the right action, and avoid choices that give the paragraph the author's later job.