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Reading Comprehension · Meaning in Context

PrepTest 136 · Section 3 · Question 23

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Meaning in Context
The one idea it tests
Read the word through the surrounding sentences, not the dictionary.
The basic logic
Look at what the critics set the two results against. The word means the results go against what people already believe.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “because”
  • “commonly”
  • “take to be”

Playground logic

Marcus calls the results strange because they bump into what most kids already believe about rulebooks. That is what "strange" means here.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 20–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Do You Have to Obey the Box? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

When Marcus says the idea leads to "strange" results, what is he probably saying about those results? They

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 23 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 23 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the quoted word in your copy and read the sentences before it. Ask what the critics' worry is measured against: evidence, logic, or ordinary belief. Reject choices that turn it into a complaint about proof or about inner contradictions. Pick the meaning that fits what the passage set up earlier.