Logical Reasoning · Most Strongly Supported

PrepTest 116 · Section 2 · Question 11

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Most Strongly Supported

The one idea it tests

If a group now prefers a new way and calls it accurate, they no longer think the old way is the only correct one.

The basic logic

Read the old belief: one way is the only correct way. Then read the new facts: the group finds another way more useful and trusts results built on it. Put the facts in the Lunchbox and ask what safely follows. The best answer is modest and sits right on the facts. Avoid big claims about which way is better or what matters more.

Tiny words that decide it

“only”
“now”
“most”
“in fact”

Playground logic

Lulu's lunchbox: for years everyone said tally marks were the only right way to keep kickball score, but now most kids find the flip scoreboard more useful and trust its scores. What safely follows: most kids no longer think tally marks are the one and only right way.

Step 2 · The kid story

Tally Marks Forever?

For years, the fourth graders kept kickball scores the same way: tally marks on the fence with chalk. "Tally marks are the only correct way to keep score," Grandpa told them. "That's how we did it in my day." Then Aunt Rosa donated a flip scoreboard. Big numbers. Easy to read from the outfield. Most kids now say the flip board is way more useful, and the official recess league uses it. Everybody trusts the league's scores. Marcus announced, "So the flip board is better in every way, forever!" Lulu tapped her clipboard. "Slow down. All we know is kids like the board and trust it. So they don't think tally marks are the only right way anymore. That's it." Grandpa sighed. "Fine. But I'm still using chalk."

Step 3 · Try the model question

For many years, kids believed that tally marks were the only correct way to keep kickball scores. Now most kids find the flip scoreboard much more useful, and the recess league, whose scores everyone trusts, keeps score on it.

The facts above give the strongest support to which claim?

Step 4 · The courtroom tale

The Old Measuring Stick

A town tailor was on trial. "For a hundred years," said the prosecutor, "tailors here believed only the wooden yardstick gave correct measurements. This tailor uses a cloth tape. Lawbreaker!" Mr. Whitfield stood. "Your Honor, the town's own tailors' guild now says the cloth tape is far more useful. The guild's official measuring chart, which everyone accepts as accurate, was made with a cloth tape." He paused. "So the guild clearly no longer thinks the yardstick is the only correct tool. I am not claiming the tape is perfect. Just that the old 'only' is gone." The judge looked at her own sleeves. "Not guilty. And measure me after."

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 116, Section 2, Question 11 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Note the old belief and its strong word, usually an 'only'. Then note what the group now finds useful and trusts as accurate. Ask: given the new facts, which old belief can the group no longer hold? Pick the modest answer that follows from both. Use the Lunchbox Rule to drop choices that rank the two ways, bring in new claims about what matters most, or say something can never happen.