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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 17

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 paragraph's job is what it does for the passage, not just what it mentions.
The basic logic
Use the Paragraph Map. Ask why the author brings this paragraph in right after the critics and the reply. Look for words like 'better model' that signal a new lens.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “more help”
  • “in like manner”
  • “models”

Playground logic

Paragraph three brings in double dutch, not to teach the game, but to give readers a better way to see what Nadia's strip is doing.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 14–21). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Nadia's Attic Hero →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In the kid passage, the main job of paragraph three is to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 17 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 17 in your official copy and answer it first.

Read the paragraph's first sentence and its last sentence, and note what came just before. Ask what the paragraph lets the reader do with the main subject. Pick the choice that names that job at the right level. Reject choices that treat the comparison itself as the topic or that describe a different paragraph.