Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 141 · Section 1 · Question 13

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

Infer a background fact the scene requires, using clues about how the work was made.

The basic logic

Look at descriptions of the making process. Ask what must have been true of the tools or conditions for those details to happen.

Tiny words that decide it

“trying”
“still”
“because”

Playground logic

Cousins had to hold back sneezes for twenty minutes because once the machine started, nothing could be taken back. So the old recorder could not cut out a sound after recording it.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 8–15). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Kevin's Legend Tapes →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The kid review most strongly supports inferring that Kevin's old recorder

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 141, Section 1, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the sentences describing what the makers or participants had to endure. Ask what condition of the time or the tools would explain that hardship. Choose the answer that follows with the smallest step. Reject choices that are possible but unsupported, or that need facts the passage never gives.