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Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 124 · Section 4 · Question 13

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Attitude
The one idea it tests
Pin down exactly what the author faults in the mainstream approach.
The basic logic
The author's complaint is an omission: theory leaves out history, which the author says is needed to understand the subject. So the view is that the theories are missing a needed piece. Do not pick a complaint the author never makes.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “rarely”
  • “without”
  • “but”

Playground logic

The writer's complaint about the committee is that it leaves out the game's history, the very thing you need to understand wall ball, so its picture is incomplete.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Who Owns the Wall Ball Rules? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which choice best describes the kid passage writer's view of most of the Recess Committee's writing about wall ball?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 124, Section 4, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the sentence where the author faults mainstream study and name the fault in one word. Predict the author's opinion from that word. Pick the choice that names that fault. Cross off any choice that names a complaint the author never makes.