Reading Comprehension · Principle

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 3

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Principle

The one idea it tests

A principle is the general rule hiding underneath a specific argument, like the secret sauce made big.

The basic logic

Restate the target paragraph's argument in one sentence, then lift it to a general rule. The right principle would justify that paragraph's reasoning without adding promises the author never makes.

Tiny words that decide it

“serious enough”
“warrant”
“risk”

Playground logic

In the club story's third paragraph, the author keeps a slow rule because bad purchases are a real danger. The rule underneath: a serious risk justifies a strong safeguard.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Treehouse Club's Everybody-Agrees Rule →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The reasoning in the club story's third paragraph most closely follows which general rule?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 3 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 3 in your official copy and answer it first.

Reread only the paragraph the stem names and boil its argument to one sentence: what risk, what safeguard, why accept the cost. Turn that into a general rule. Pick the choice that would justify the paragraph, and reject choices that promise more than the author claims or that blame someone the author does not blame.