Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 23

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 question posed to the reader can set up an example that supports a view, even a view the passage later limits.

The basic logic

Read what follows the question: the answer given and whether it agrees with the older view. Then ask what job the question does in that paragraph.

Tiny words that decide it

“accordingly”
“in fact”
“nevertheless”

Playground logic

Priya asks how many stickers you'd need to win. The answer (more than 30) shows the old wisdom working in that kind of case, before she gives the twist.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 22–26). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Priya's Sticker Study →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In the kid passage, the coin-flip sticker question mainly serves to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 23 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 23 in your official copy and answer it first.

Locate the posed question and read two or three sentences after it. Note whether those sentences agree with the earlier view or with the new findings, and where the turning word comes. The function is set by that relation. Reject choices that assign the question to a later paragraph's job or that flip which view it supports.