Reading Comprehension · Inference (principle)

PrepTest 124 · Section 4 · Question 21

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (principle)

The one idea it tests

The author's reasons for success can be turned into a general rule the author would accept.

The basic logic

Gather the features the author praises (speed of growth, timing, surviving lean times, reacting to outbreaks). The right principle matches one of those features as a general rule; the wrong ones add requirements the author never sets.

Tiny words that decide it

“fundamental”
“should”
“responds”

Playground logic

The Squad signs up helpers only when scraps appear and grows fast when scraps pile up. So the author would back a rule that a helper group's effort should rise and fall with the size of the mess.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 20–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Tidy Squad →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author would most likely say which rule is key to keeping messes small over the long run?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 124, Section 4, Question 21 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 21 in your official copy and answer it first.

List the features the author credits for long-term control. For each choice, ask: does the passage praise this, in general form? Cross off rules that set timing the passage never claims, that add a test or condition the author did not stress, or that bring in a new requirement.