Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 112 · Section 2 · Question 8

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference

The one idea it tests

Combine two separate gaps into one supported statement.

The basic logic

One group has the skill to read the old material but not the subject knowledge; the other has subject knowledge but not the reading skill. The supported statement is that few people have both, which is what a proper study would need. Stay inside the lunchbox.

Tiny words that decide it

“both”
“few”
“lack”

Playground logic

Code crackers can read Flipcode but not engine plans; builders know engines but not Flipcode. So hardly anyone has the two skills Benny's go-kart notebook needs.

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 supports which statement about the people who study the club's coded notebooks?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 112, Section 2, Question 8 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 8 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find every sentence that describes what each group of specialists can and cannot do. Put them side by side and ask what follows when you combine them. Pick the answer that the combined lines support, and reject answers that overstate a group's failings, swap which group lacks which skill, or add claims the passage never makes.