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Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 140 · Section 4 · 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
Detail
The one idea it tests
Find the cause the passage itself gives for the effect named in the stem.
The basic logic
Locate the explanation the passage credits for that effect, usually in the paragraph that first explains it. Match the cause, not a rival's version of it.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “since”
  • “usually”
  • “so”

Playground logic

Priya's paragraph says boring lessons usually seem slow because bored kids check the clock more often.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 20–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Stretchy Math Clock →

Step 3 · Try the model question

According to the kid passage, boring lessons usually seem slow because

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 140, Section 4, 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 first explains the effect the stem names. Read the sentence with the cause word. Choose the answer that repeats that cause. Watch out for answers that give a rival's explanation or a different paragraph's detail. Stay with the passage's own words.