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Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose (paragraph)

PrepTest 121 · Section 2 · Question 6

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 purpose is its topic sentence's claim, with the example serving it
The basic logic
Read the paragraph's first sentence, see that the example and contrast support it, and pick the answer that names the claim, not just the example
Tiny words that decide it
  • “for example”
  • “by contrast”
  • “where”

Playground logic

Paragraph two of the kid passage exists to show that the two clubs differ in how they treat their rulebook: one tests it, one accepts it. Speed chess is just the evidence.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 6–12). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Two Chess Clubs, One Rulebook →

Step 3 · Try the model question

What is the kid passage's second paragraph mainly meant to do?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 121, Section 2, Question 6 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 6 in your official copy and answer it first.

Read the first sentence of the paragraph and state its claim. Check that the example in the middle supports that claim. Choose the answer that names the claim the example serves. Reject answers that make the example itself the point, or that give it a job from a different paragraph.