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Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 116 · Section 1 · Question 2

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
Purpose is the main point turned into a verb: what is the author doing with the whole passage?
The basic logic
Name the author's action word (describe, warn, defend, criticize). If the author ends by predicting trouble, the purpose is a caution, not a neutral report.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “unlikely”
  • “will mean”
  • “but”

Playground logic

The Paws Pass narrator is not just explaining the pass; the last paragraph warns that it may hurt walkers and families alike. So the verb is 'warn.'

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Paws Pass →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Why did the writer most likely write the Paws Pass passage?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Use your main-point sentence and turn it into a verb. Ask whether the author is neutral or takes a side, and how strongly. Check the verb in each choice first: a neutral verb fails if the author argues. Then check that the object of the verb covers everyone the author worries about, not just one group.