Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 136 · Section 3 · Question 27

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

The purpose matches the author's main move across the whole passage.

The basic logic

Theory, critics' objections, author's rebuttal of each. That shape is a defense against critics.

Tiny words that decide it

“in fact”
“does not entail”
“first, second”

Playground logic

Priya's whole trip is standing up for the Box Doubters by showing Marcus's reasoning does not work.

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

In the kid passage, Priya mainly aims to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 27 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 27 in your official copy and answer it first.

Use your Paragraph Map: who is criticized, who defends, and how. Choose a verb matching the author's main move. Reject choices that describe history, that claim the theory agrees with common sense, that say the consequences are accepted rather than denied, or that blame the theory's supporters. Keep the defense.