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Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 10

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
An inference about a moment in time comes from what the passage shows was still unknown then.
The basic logic
Focus on what happened at the start of the investigation. If the investigator had to guess and then discover something, it was not yet known. Choose the claim the narration quietly requires.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “at least”
  • “previously”
  • “then”

Playground logic

Grandpa had to guess that the lunch table hid another rumor-starter and then find the twins. So when he began, nobody knew of any starter there besides Bertie.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 8–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Grandpa and the Great Rumor Study →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The rumor story implies which one of the following about the time Grandpa began his study?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 10 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 10 in your official copy and answer it first.

Locate the narration of the investigation's starting point. Note each step where something had to be guessed or found, since those things were unknown at the start. Predict what must have been true then. Choose the choice the narration requires, and drop choices that contradict later paragraphs or describe research the passage never mentions.