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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 116 · Section 1 · Question 7

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
Ask why the author put this phrase here: what job does it do in the author's argument?
The basic logic
Read the sentence before and after. If the phrase sets up a later point about lower quality, its job is to support the author's worry. Confirm whose voice it is.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “since”
  • “so”
  • “largely”

Playground logic

When the narrator says the pass is mostly a way for new walkers to get noticed, that is a Helper: it leads straight to 'less practice, less pleased families.'

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 does the writer say the pass is mostly a way for brand-new walkers to get noticed?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 7 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 7 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the phrase and read two sentences on each side. Ask what the author does next with it. Decide whose voice it is in. Pick the choice that names its job in the author's chain of reasoning. Reject choices that hand the idea to another group, call it a benefit when the author treats it as a problem, or call it a side note.