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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 121 · Section 2 · 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
Function (paragraph)
The one idea it tests
A paragraph's job is defined by how it connects to the paragraph before it
The basic logic
Ask what the paragraph adds to the argument just made: a new claim, an example, a prediction, or support from history
Tiny words that decide it
  • “also”
  • “in contrast”
  • “may”

Playground logic

Priya's last paragraph uses last spring's lunches to push her rethink further. It is a helper that extends paragraph three, not a brand new argument.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–5). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Lunchroom Puzzle →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The final paragraph of the kid passage mainly serves to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 121, Section 2, 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.

Read the last paragraph's first sentence and look for a link word tying it back to the previous paragraph. Ask: does it start fresh, predict, or support what came before with history? Choose the choice that names that link, and reject choices that describe content the paragraph never covers or a job a different paragraph does.