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Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 137 · Section 1 · Question 21

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Inference
The one idea it tests
Lenders' behavior reveals their beliefs: charging one group less means they trusted that group more.
The basic logic
Find the comparison in the passage and ask what belief would explain it. Lunchbox Rule: stay inside what the behavior shows.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “than”
  • “higher”
  • “took into account”

Playground logic

Kids charged Tommy two cookies but ordinary kids only one, so they must have thought ordinary kids were more likely to give things back.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 20–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Boss of the Fort →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The kid passage best backs up which view held by the lenders about ordinary kids?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 137, Section 1, Question 21 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 21 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find where the passage compares how lenders treated two borrowers. Ask what belief would make that difference sensible. Choose the answer that states that belief and nothing more. Cross out choices that bring in motives, knowledge or fairness the passage never connects to the lenders.