Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 136 · Section 3 · Question 12

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (Application)

The one idea it tests

Apply the author's view to a new case.

The basic logic

Recall the author's key claim about what the field's standard writing leaves out. Apply it to the new situation. The right answer predicts that gap, not a different problem the author never raised.

Tiny words that decide it

“most likely”
“expect”
“regardless”

Playground logic

Ms. Rivera says the report form cuts the story out of every experiment. So she would expect any new lab report to leave out the human surprise, even if every number is right.

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

A fifth grader writes a lab report about a plant experiment that surprised the whole class. Ms. Rivera would most likely expect which of these about the report?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 12 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 12 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the author's main claim about what the field's usual writing leaves out, and why. Treat the new scenario as one more example of that writing. Choose the prediction that follows from the author's claim. Cross off choices that blame a cause the author never gives, or that predict the opposite of what the author describes.