Reading Comprehension · Main Point

PrepTest 136 · Section 3 · Question 1

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Main Point

The one idea it tests

The main point joins the author's thesis with the job the work does, not just one example.

The basic logic

Find the author's own claim near the start (usually after a 'but'). Check that the answer covers both what the artist borrows and what the artist uses it for, and that it is not narrower or wider than the whole passage.

Tiny words that decide it

“but”
“most strikingly”
“in particular”

Playground logic

The kid passage says Nadia's games carry a message, and her real trick is using playground rhymes to deliver it. A good main point needs both halves: the rhyme tools and the fairness message.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Nadia's Board Games →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which choice best captures what the kid passage is mainly saying?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 1 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 1 in your official copy and answer it first.

Underline the author's thesis near the opening, the sentence that turns away from what critics agree on. Then note what each later paragraph adds. Pick the answer that names both the borrowed source and the purpose it serves. Cross off answers that grab one paragraph's example, or that claim more than the passage supports.