Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 115 · Section 1 · Question 13

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Primary Purpose

The one idea it tests

The passage's main concern must cover every paragraph, not just one.

The basic logic

Map each paragraph's job. Here the paragraphs describe a work's claims and then its style and approach. The right answer names both what the work says and how it says it, at the right level of generality.

Tiny words that decide it

“most”
“also”
“equally”

Playground logic

The kid review spends P2 on what Nadia claims and P3 and P4 on how she writes and what she mixes in. So its main concern is the scrapbook's ideas plus its unusual style.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 13–20). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Review: Nadia's Scrapbook, Strings Attached →

Step 3 · Try the model question

What is the kid passage mainly about?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Write a two-word job for each paragraph before you look at the choices. Ask: does the passage only report the work's ideas, or also its manner? Pick the choice that covers every paragraph's job. Toss choices that shrink to one paragraph, that swap in a subject the passage never treats, or that misstate what kind of work is being discussed.