Reading Comprehension · Comparative

PrepTest 136 · Section 3 · Question 10

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Comparative (NOT parallel)

The one idea it tests

Find the move one passage makes and the other skips.

The basic logic

Map each passage's moves: criticizes? gives examples? predicts? hopes? Then test each choice. The answer is the one where the claimed difference is real; the others describe differences that are false because both passages do the thing, or neither does.

Tiny words that decide it

“NOT”
“whereas”
“specific”

Playground logic

Aunt Rosa names actual examples of the craze (the fair theme and the renamed cards). Ms. Rivera mentions the craze but gives no real examples of it.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–12). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Two Teachers on Dry Writing →

Step 3 · Try the model question

In which way are the two kid passages NOT alike?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 10 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 10 in your official copy and answer it first.

Make a quick two-column move map: what each passage does, paragraph by paragraph. For each choice, check both columns. A choice is right only if the first passage truly does the thing and the second truly does not. Many wrong choices claim a difference where both passages actually do the same move.