Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 113 · Section 1 · Question 9

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (author's view of another voice)

The one idea it tests

Find the exact reason the author gives for rejecting the critics; that reason tells you what the critics are missing.

The basic logic

Locate where the critics appear and read the author's answer to them. Ask what the author's whole rebuttal points to, then pick the choice that names that missing piece at the right level of generality.

Tiny words that decide it

“impossible”
“given”
“recall”

Playground logic

The rumor story answers the scolding fifth graders by pointing to what Grandpa could and could not know back then. So their mistake is ignoring the times he worked in.

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 author of the rumor story would probably say the scolding fifth graders

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 113, Section 1, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the critics in the passage and underline the author's response. List each reason the author offers. Ask what single idea ties those reasons together. Choose the choice naming that idea, and cut choices that are too narrow, blame something the author never mentions, or credit the investigator with a link the passage does not draw.