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Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 126 · Section 2 · Question 3

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Primary Purpose
The one idea it tests
Purpose is the main point turned into a verb: what is the author doing with the whole passage?
The basic logic
Notice the two-sided critique: a critic says the remedy hurts one party, and the author adds that it also fails the other party. A good purpose answer captures both halves with a mild verb like suggest or argue that, without inventing a solution.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “not only”
  • “but also”
  • “suggest”

Playground logic

Aunt Rosa says the seed rule hurts Biscuit, and the author adds that it does not even protect Grandpa. The passage's job is to show the rule fails on both fronts.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Biscuit and the Seed Rule →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage mainly aims to

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 126, Section 2, Question 3 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 3 in your official copy and answer it first.

Recall the paragraph map: conflict, compromise, objection, author's added doubt, then support for that doubt. Choose the purpose that names the remedy and the author's double criticism of it. Drop choices that say the author proposes something new, that rest on a phrase pulled out of the passage and stretched, or that go beyond the author's claim.